#arachnids — Public Fediverse posts

Im Spätsommer und Frühherbst sind die Gartenkreuzspinnen besonders aktiv und bauen ihre auffälligen Radnetze in Gärten, Parks und an Waldrändern. ❤️

#Photomonday #Fotomontag

#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie #Foto #Photography #Fotografie #Photo #Animals #Spinnentiere #Arachnids #Gliederfüßer #Arthropod #Kreuzspinne #Gartenkreuzspinne #GardenSpider #Spider #Wildlife #Berlin #Schlossparkgezwitscher #Naturephotography #Naturfotografie #Digitour

Im Spätsommer und Frühherbst sind die Gartenkreuzspinnen besonders aktiv und bauen ihre auffälligen Radnetze in Gärten, Parks und an Waldrändern. ❤️

#Photomonday #Fotomontag

#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie #Foto #Photography #Fotografie #Photo #Animals #Spinnentiere #Arachnids #Gliederfüßer #Arthropod #Kreuzspinne #Gartenkreuzspinne #GardenSpider #Spider #Wildlife #Berlin #Schlossparkgezwitscher #Naturephotography #Naturfotografie #Digitour

Im Spätsommer und Frühherbst sind die Gartenkreuzspinnen besonders aktiv und bauen ihre auffälligen Radnetze in Gärten, Parks und an Waldrändern. ❤️

#Photomonday #Fotomontag

#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie #Foto #Photography #Fotografie #Photo #Animals #Spinnentiere #Arachnids #Gliederfüßer #Arthropod #Kreuzspinne #Gartenkreuzspinne #GardenSpider #Spider #Wildlife #Berlin #Schlossparkgezwitscher #Naturephotography #Naturfotografie #Digitour

Im Spätsommer und Frühherbst sind die Gartenkreuzspinnen besonders aktiv und bauen ihre auffälligen Radnetze in Gärten, Parks und an Waldrändern. ❤️

#Photomonday #Fotomontag

#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie #Foto #Photography #Fotografie #Photo #Animals #Spinnentiere #Arachnids #Gliederfüßer #Arthropod #Kreuzspinne #Gartenkreuzspinne #GardenSpider #Spider #Wildlife #Berlin #Schlossparkgezwitscher #Naturephotography #Naturfotografie #Digitour

Im Spätsommer und Frühherbst sind die Gartenkreuzspinnen besonders aktiv und bauen ihre auffälligen Radnetze in Gärten, Parks und an Waldrändern. ❤️

#Photomonday #Fotomontag

#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie #Foto #Photography #Fotografie #Photo #Animals #Spinnentiere #Arachnids #Gliederfüßer #Arthropod #Kreuzspinne #Gartenkreuzspinne #GardenSpider #Spider #Wildlife #Berlin #Schlossparkgezwitscher #Naturephotography #Naturfotografie #Digitour

This bright little spider knows exactly where the juiciest bugs congregate at night 😁

#spider #spiderweb #orbweaver #spin #spinneweb #clever #arachnids #creepycrawlies #worksmartnothard

This bright little spider knows exactly where the juiciest bugs congregate at night 😁

#spider #spiderweb #orbweaver #spin #spinneweb #clever #arachnids #creepycrawlies #worksmartnothard

This bright little spider knows exactly where the juiciest bugs congregate at night 😁

#spider #spiderweb #orbweaver #spin #spinneweb #clever #arachnids #creepycrawlies #worksmartnothard

This bright little spider knows exactly where the juiciest bugs congregate at night 😁

#spider #spiderweb #orbweaver #spin #spinneweb #clever #arachnids #creepycrawlies #worksmartnothard

This bright little spider knows exactly where the juiciest bugs congregate at night 😁

#spider #spiderweb #orbweaver #spin #spinneweb #clever #arachnids #creepycrawlies #worksmartnothard

Cellar spider, a week ago, and tonight. Look what she's done! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/happy-event.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

“ #Mites & #spiders are #arachnids and they eat each other, they also have toxins in their #venom that target each other. Spider venom #peptides "organic" way of killing mites doesn't accumulate in the food chain; doesn't kill the farmer or the beekeeper or any pets — it's selective to the #varroa mite," Dr Herzig said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-02/spider-venom-varroa-mite-research-honey-bees/106862586

(Note 1,700 native bee species have a very different biology from European honeybees.
https://www.aussiebee.com.au/varroa-mite-crisis.html )

#honeybees #Science

This is another fave vid from his channel.
It's when he milked #spiders & made #GuitarStrings from them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1DzTHI-n7-E

#Engineering #science #CoolExperiments #arachnids #nature #MadScience

It's still #MiteMonday somewhere…

Vignette from under a log. A snout mite (family Bdellidae) feeds on the remains of a springtail, with a guest appearance from a beetle mite (order? suborder? Oribatida)*.

* Above superfamily or so, mite taxonomic ranks start getting contentious.

#DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acariformes #Bdellidae #Oribatida

#MiteMonday: snout mite (family Bdellidae) and oribatid mite are friends

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Bdellidae #Oribatida

#Arachtober 19: this cute little oribatid (found on a rotting log) seemed to have ladybug-like spots. These widespread and abundant detritus- and fungus-eating soil dwellers are sometimes called "beetle mites" because of their hard carapaces.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida #macro

#Arachtober 10: from back in June, a mesh-web weaver (family Dictynidae) back-combing a line of silk to turn it into a fuzz of nanofibres. Spiders like this have a special sieve-like silk-making organ called a cribellum. This in fact is the ancestral state of most spiders.

Cribellate silk doesn't use glue; rather, it melds with the waxy compounds on some insect exoskeletons. It doesn't stick very well to other surfaces. Later in spider evolution, spiders developed other types of silk that could catch different insects and support more ambitious aerial webs. However, for a minority of spiders, cribellate silk still works just fine.

More details in this 2017 paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0363 :OpenAccess:

#DailySpiderVid #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Dictynidae #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #OpenAccess

Dictynids: SEEN.

#DailySpiderPic #arachnids #spiders #Dictynidae #macro #LichenSubscribe

Kicking off #InverteFest with a galumnoid oribatid from my garden!

:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/156463966

#DailyMitePic #MiteMonday #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida #macro

For #MiteMonday, here's a little oribatid I found under the bark of a rotting log in a very wet meadow. Unlike the poppyseed-like galumnoids I've posted before, this one has a clear division between head and abdomen. It would be serendipitous if it were a ptyctimous mite, as a new catalogue of this group was just published: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5265.1.1

:inaturalist: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/155850533

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Oribatida

Conifer cones are like high-rises for tiny spiders. Every one holds countless silk apartments, some with spiders still inside, like the dictynid in the last picture.

#DailySpiderPic #arachnids #spiders #Dictynidae #macro

Just a couple of oribatid mites under a rock in the garden…Galumnoidea, perhaps?

#Mitestodon #mites #arachnids #Arthropoda #Arachnida #Acari #Oribatida #Galumnidae

From my Ontario Place visit a couple weeks ago: a tiny spiderling ballooning from a fence post, on an unseasonably warm afternoon. #Araneidae? #Dictynidae?

#DailySpiderPic #arachnids #spiders #ArthroBeauty