#arachnids — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arachnids, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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“Most people, when they see one spider they start screaming. And here, we have 100,000 spiders and everybody wants to learn about them — to me that is hard to believe.”
Agreed!!
#arthropods #spiders #arachnids #araneae #spiderweb #worldslargest
Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist | CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/biggest-spiderweb-in-the-world-discovered-in-cave-9.6982173 -
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
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The #animals that give each other gifts https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241223-christmas-animals-that-give-gifts
"Nuptial gift giving – when the male presents the female with a nutritious morsel during courtship and mating – has been noted in species as diverse as #snails, #earthworms & #squid. #Birds have been known to enjoy gift giving too, with male great grey #shrikes impaling small creatures on thorns and twigs to impress mates, before offering them as presents during courtship. However, it is most common amongst #insects & #arachnids."
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#MiteMonday: snout mite (family Bdellidae) and oribatid mite are friends
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Bdellidae #Oribatida
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The Garden of the Greek Gods (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Greek_Gods) is always a pleasure to visit. I love examining the limestone for tiny fossils. I also found this running crab spider (_Philodromus_) sunning itself on one of Pan's horns.
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Philodromidae
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Good lake visit today
1. Scenery
2. The _Bryobia_ clover mites are loving the warm weather.
3. A linyphiid, I think? Else a theridiid?
4. A slow-moving (for once) lithobiomorph centipede.#DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #SpidersOfMastodon #Mitestodon #bugstodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #centipedes #Araneae #Acari #Myriapoda
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#Arachtober 22: "Back off!" This running crab spider (_Philodromus_) I found on a rock tonight was suspicious of me. Black & white not to be artsy but because the white balance was irreparably fucked up.
#DailySpiderPic #arachnids #spiders #Araneae #Philodromidae #macro
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#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
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#Arachtober 13 (it's still the 13th somewhere!): a fast-moving, red running crab spider (family Philodromidae) eating an equally fast-moving, red whirligig mite (family Anystidae)! From back in July, seen on the Park Dr Reservation Trail, southwest of the Evergreen Brick Works.
Possibly _Philodromus rufus_? I've only identified a _Philodromus_ to species like, once.
#DailySpiderPic #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #spiders #mites #Araneae #Philodromidae #Acari #Anystidae
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The other day I was lucky enough to catch a little running crab spider molting, beginning to end, on video! Many videos of spider molting are of tarantulas, which take hours to molt, and the sped-up footage looks freaky. But with small spiders it only takes minutes, and you can see how gradual it is. Check it out!
Bonus red-winged blackbird screeches, and a guest appearance from a clover mite.
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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
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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
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Just a couple of oribatid mites under a rock in the garden…Galumnoidea, perhaps?
#Mitestodon #mites #arachnids #Arthropoda #Arachnida #Acari #Oribatida #Galumnidae