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===Detection===

===Detection===

The method of detection is a combination of the presence of clinical signs as well as identification of mites on a skin scrape or feather pluck. Not all of infections of ''Knemidocoptes'' mite result in clinical signs.

The method of detection is a combination of the presence of clinical signs as well as identification of mites on a skin scrape or feather pluck. Not all infections of ''Knemidocoptes'' mite result in clinical signs, some may lay dormant for until the animal is stressed or is otherwise immunocompromised.

===Life Cycle===

===Life Cycle===

The entire life cycle takes place on a single host and takes between 14 and 21 days to complete. The mite is spread by close contact with an infected animal, however it can survive for a limited time off the host. <br/>

The entire life cycle takes place on a single host and takes between 14 and 21 days to complete. The mite is spread by close contact with an infected animal, however it can survive for a limited time off the host. Mating occurs on the host, a mature male will leave its moulting pocket and seek a female either on the skin or in a moulting pocket. The females are ovo-viviparous meaning that they give birth to live larval young. Once fertalised the female will create a burrow in the upper layers of the epidermis, the larvae will be laid in this burrow and move to the skin surface.

Laid into the stratum corneum by the burrowing female.<br/>

'''Larvae'''<br/>

'''Larvae'''<br/>

Burrow into the skin and go through two nymphal stages before reaching maturity

''Knemidocoptes'' mites have hexapod larvae.Burrow into the skin creating moulting pockets and undergo two nymphal stages before reaching maturity

===Important Species===

===Important Species===