#Arachnid appreciation post:
Marble cylinder seals from ancient Mesopotamia, Late Uruk / Jamdat Nasr Period, c. 3500-2900 BCE:
(7) Three #Spiders
(8) #Scorpion with a Plant
on display at The Morgan Library & Museum NYC
Don't you hate it when you pop down to your favourite flower for a refreshing sip of nectar, only to get a pseudoscorpion stuck to your face?
Freeloading floral hitchhikers!
Student Dustin Lamont found this pseudoscorpion attached to the probscis of the native NZ moth Pseudocoremia lupinata, on our ecology field trip to the Boyle Outdoor Education Centre in the Southern Alps last week.
Great photos! For the arachnophobic, the article includes, right down the bottom, a picture of a spider but it's unbelievably well camouflaged, so you can look at the ant pictures without seeing it at all, and you'll have to scroll and scroll to get to the spider itself :)
Ultra-rare 'punk ant' with Sid Vicious-like mohawk photographed in Far North Queensland - ABC News
Frilled Orbweaver (Kaira alba) - #Arachtober 30
I kept hoping to see what kind of web this species makes. Till I learned they doesn't use a web to hunt. This spider uses pheromones to attract moths and she grabs them when they come close. #spider#arachnid#macrophotography
A little spider is making her web on my porch light. I’m far more inclined to be nice to this one, I think she might be a little orb weaver but I’m not entirely sure #spider#arachnid#photography
This tiny toddler of a Grayish Jumping Spider (Phidippus princeps) looks like a child be scolded. I don't know what I did to it, but I sure am sorry. Perhaps its ashamed of my lack of diffusion as well... Seen in Manassas National Battlefield Park
Geolycosa riograndae. A brand new wolf spider species for me! Just standing on the patio in my backyard last night. I nearly ignored it, but I have been trying to post a few new spiders each day to iNaturalist for #AracnOctubre so I went to get my camera. When I saw his face, I knew it was different. They appear to only be in Texas. This is only the 5th recorded on iNaturalist in the Rio Grande Valley.
This was taken a few years ago, but my garden now of course is full of spider's webs strategically placed to catch a few of the bees that come to the flowers. Everything has to live and the bees are soon finishing their work, with the arrival of the cooler weather.
Found a harvestman crawling along some planks at work. Probably the eastern harvestman. (L. vittatum)
For those who don't know, harvestmen may be arachnids, but they're not spiders! They're pretty easily identified by the broad connection between the front and rear body segments, making the body look like just one large segment. They sometimes get mixed up with cellar spiders, which also get called "daddy long legs."