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  1. CW: Spider, being a spider

    Heyo friends, I met a #spider!

    At one point I brought the camera too close and alarmed the poor thing, but it chilled out again after I backed off. Wild to me how spikey their legs are.

    #awalkaday #spiders #arachnids #arachnid #SpiderSunday

  2. This absolute unit had set up shop right above the back door, I included the recessed ceiling light for scale (the photo still doesn't do it justice, the light is smaller than the spider 😭😭😭)

    My husband managed to safely remove it and release it in the backyard in a spot where there should be plenty to eat. I'll bet this guy eats mice. 😩

    #gianthousespider #absoluteunit #EndBoss #spiders #huisspin #arachnids #arachnophobia #donotwant #aaaaaaah #pleasegetitawayfromme #imscared

  3. #MiteMonday: a tiny _Podocinum_ mite found under a rock. Its extremely thin elongated front legs have forked hairs at the end, and it seems to use these legs like antennae to navigate.

    Much better pictures here: bugguide.net/node/view/514391

    #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

  4. Note to self: when you think you’ve dropped your pen between two lounge chairs and a quick look shows something dark in the shadows, do NOT reach your hand down there to pick it up!

    Fortunately for my nerves it was a dead huntsman, but it was a major creep out nonetheless. Could have been worse, right? We’ve had funnelwebs in the house before. #arachnids #arachnophobia #spiders #straya #australia

  5. The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.

    #ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

  6. #MiteMonday: meet _Podocinum_! Found several of these tiny predatory fellows under a rock, feeling their way around with their long, thin front legs tipped with forked hairs, a little reminiscent of a pseudoscorpion's claws. However they are dwarfed by even the small pseudoscorpions in my garden.

    #DailyMiteVid #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Podocinidae