Australian hide producers may find mites are damaging their hides and eating into their profits. The mites leave pinprick-sized holes around the shoulders and rump on the split grain side of the hide.

Beef industry development officer at the Department of Primary Industries, Maria Crawford, told The Colac Herald that warm, wet conditions last autumn had provided optimum conditions for the mites and that the country’s hide industry was losing thousands of dollars each week because if the damage they have caused.

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