#arachnids — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕷️💨 The jungle #huntsman #spider from #Queensland reached 3.59 meters per second, doubling the previous #arachnid speed record.

Researchers at #Imperial College #London measured 162 #species across four #continents to study spider #locomotion. They found that longer legs relative to body size predict greater speed.

👉 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532086-the-worlds-fastest-spider-tops-3-5-metres-per-second/

#biomechanics #arachnids #animals #science #biology #evolution #australia #wildlife #invertebrates #nature

European garden spider (2012)
lat. Araneus diadematus
Photo ©️ Dietmar Bachmann
📍Zofingen, Switzerland

#wildlifewednesday #MakroMittwoch #wildlife #photography #spiders #animals #crossspider #orbweaver #arachnids #arthropods #sunset #Nikon #NikonD4 #Wildtiere #Fotografie #Spinnen #Tiere #Gartenkreuzspinne #Radnetzspinne #Kreuzspinnen #Spinnentiere #Arachnoidea #Sonnenuntergang

So far there is only one coneflower blooming in the garden. It has attracted hordes of 1) carpet beetles (which feed on pollen as adults); 2) thrips; and 3) minute pirate bugs and 4) whirligig mites, which both eat the thrips.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #thrips #bugs #arachnids #mites #Coleoptera #Dermestidae #Thysanoptera #Heteroptera #Anthocoridae #Acari #Acariformes #Anystidae

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

#Zoropsis spinimana is a Mediterranean spider. Due to global warming it is now also found in Germany. I have had this spider as a house guest since 2019.

#photography #photo #nature #animals #arachnida #arachnids #spiders #zoropsisspinimana #spinnen #nosferatuspinne #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable