Knowledge graph centered on Carbon dioxide mite removal and enumeration (Parasitidae) with 27 nodes and 101 connections. Top connected: Bombus, Bombus terrestris, Bombus appositus, Bombus impatiens, B. appositus.
Phoretic mites were removed from beetle hosts using focused carbon dioxide gas delivered through a pipette tip, which temporarily incapacitated both mites and beetles for counting and size classification.
Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.
Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Phoretic mite discrimination among male burying beetle (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>) hosts (2008), Annals of the Entomological Society of America. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.