Silk Mites

Silk mites are mites that live in and on strands of web created by spiders, including Vast Weavers, Livestock Spiders, and salticids.

Description
Silk mites measure about four to six inches in length as adults. They are sleek, quick creatures with adaptive pedipalps allowing them to comb through strands of web for organic material without breaking it. Their footsteps are quick and light so as to not attract the attention of the spiders whose webs they live in and around. They consume the dry remains of spiders' prey, forming a symbiotic relationship by keeping the web clean of rot and potential obstacles.

Role in Salticid Society
Due to the prominent method of salticid burial, silk mites scavenge and eventually fully disassemble salticid corpses. They are known spiritually in most Terran religions as deliverers of the dead, responsible for carrying the bodies of spiders gradually off to the Highest World.