#arachnids — Public Fediverse posts

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

🕷️ Garden Cross Spider embalming its dinner.

https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2354885/garden-cross-spider-embalming-its-dinner

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

Some kind of Orb-weaver spider I think.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #michigan #animals #wildlife #photography #spider #spiders #arachnid #arachnids #web

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

Been a long time since I posted anything for #MiteMonday, but I was going through my camera and found this one I don't think I've shared before! Just a good old _Allothrombium_ red velvet mite.

#Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Trombidiidae

#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: https://bugguide.net/node/view/514391

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

World's biggest spiderweb home to more than 110,000 spiders discovered on the Albanian-Greek border

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/11/07/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-home-to-more-than-110000-spiders-discovered-on-the-albanian-greek

#News #spiders #arachnophobia #arachnophilia #arachnids 🕷️ 🕸️

#Arachtober 28: clover mite (_Bryobia_) in a bright patch of lichen.

#ArthroBeauty #LichenSubscribe #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #CloverMites #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Tetranychidae #Bryobiinae

#Arachtober 25: now for something entirely different, a penthaleid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/263374) feeding on a dandelion leaf. Species like the common _P. major_ (which this probably is) have a #DorsalAnus and excrete these globules as they feed, often hanging upside down on the undersides of leaves or vertically on blades of grass.

(If you think a dorsal anus is wild, certain astig females have secondary dorsal genital openings for copulation.)

#ArthroBeauty #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Penthaleidae

#Arachtober 23: witnessed some interesting behaviour between two long-legged velvet mites (family Erythraeidae, likely genus _Balaustium_) on a tree trunk. They were circling each other and drumming their legs, similar to what I've seen courting _Allothrombium_ red velvet mites doing. I am going to email a mite expert and see what they think!

Unfortunately somewhat shaky video here: https://youtu.be/eGYU6fMfm_Q

#ArthroBeauty #DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Parasitengona #Erythraeidae

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

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

The other day when I finally got around to cleaning the computer out, and literally the cobwebs, I wondered to myself wtf spider is the one that always makes webs inside the case and is never seen. I think I might have found the subject. I just saw it crawling along but after taking the photos I noticed there was a random array of the fine webs on another loop of cable above this that look like what was inside.

#spiders #cobwebs #arachnids #USB8 #CCBYNCND

#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

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

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

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