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Yes! This one hung around long enough for me to stop the car, grab my phone, and actually get in a couple of snaps. A beauty with its black head and white nose. Last two pictures are habitat - pine, pine, and more pine.

Found on the nasal ala/alar crease of a Homo sapiens sapiens, using a gentle deep skin scrape procedure that didn't involve any capillary bleeding.

First mite measures ~210um x 44um
Second mite ~334um x 34um
After that I got lazy and didn't measure them.
Most of them weren't moving, but this one was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd-NarK9NjE

I also found a Demodex folliculorum in thes same sample:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68306159
and an egg: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68305996

How odd! These rather large mosquitoes were clustered on the wet part of a turtle’s shell. The turtle was crossing the road. When I picked it up to move it, the mosquitoes were reluctant to move. Any that flew off to avoid my hand immediately returned to the wet shell. Last photo shows them at the back end of the shell.

While heading towards a bench, I saw a lump on one of its corners. I didn't remember the bench having posts, and sure enough, the lump flew away. It flew close to the ground, so I figured that it landed nearby and it did. My boyfriend gradually shown his phone's flashlight on it, which was partially blocked by a tree. It's head moved at every sound (my camera, some people splashing in the water, and the osprey), and eventually flew away.

From our Flickr page at the time:

On March 22, 2009 around 1:00pm, we were walking north on east main trail in Fakahatchee Preserve State Park in southwest Florida. We had just stepped out of a slough back onto the main trail when Chris noticed something on the trail. Chris wispered to Misti, "panther"!

We both were in shock, we have been lucky enough to see 4 and 5 panthers each over the last few years. We furiously pulled our little fuji point and shoot out of Misti's pocket and snapped a few pictures.

After a few pictures I whipped my bag off and got my dslr out, switched lenses and literally went running after the panther. I follwed the panther for about a quarter mile down the trail. Eventually it got annoyed at me following it and bounded off into the preserved.

WOW!

Didn't notice it was carrying a lizard (an anole, I think) when I took the pictures. It was too small in the camera's screen to see the lizard. I took a burst and happened to capture it eating the lizard in the air.

Roadside. I first saw this population two years ago when the adjacent timber had just been cut. My impression now is that the newly-full sun conditions have not been kind to it. There appear to be less plants than I remember (I should have counted them!) and the leaves are yellower.

This species is endemic/restricted to about 5 miles along the Yadkin River in North Carolina. Its habitat is rocky river scour areas along the shore of the Yadkin. There are several related species in different parts of the U.S. that specialize in similar habitats. Research indicates that this species is evolutionarily older than many of the others.