#arachtober — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arachtober, aggregated by home.social.
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#Arachtober 23nd
European Harvestman (Phalangium opilio)
#Harvestman #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #Arachnid #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Opiliones #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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#Arachtober 23nd
European Harvestman (Phalangium opilio)
#Harvestman #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #Arachnid #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Opiliones #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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#Arachtober 19th
Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
#Harvestman #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #Arachnid #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Opiliones #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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#Arachtober 19th
Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
#Harvestman #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #Arachnid #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Opiliones #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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#Arachtober 16: mating opilionids, a very leggy affair. I didn't have my light on me and was just using camera flash, and it was over in a second.
Something I only noticed just now: one of the opilionids' legs is curled around the other's! (The tips of the legs are made up of many tiny segments so they are basically prehensile.) This is really cute to me somehow…
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#Arachtober 3: meet a representative of another order of arachnids, Opiliones (a.k.a. harvesters, harvestmen, daddy-long-legs [though this can also refer to a kind of spider, crane flies, and even a plant]). They have some key differences from spiders: head and abdomen segments fused together; no silk or venom (i.e. they are entirely harmless); only two eyes; and instead of using pedipalps to transfer sperm during mating, they have an intromittent (insertable) organ, a penis or aedeagus.
I think this is the common species _Phalangium opilio_, introduced from Europe. There are several thousand different species in this order!
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Happy #Arachtober! Kicking things off with this opilionid I recently met in a nearby park. Note the one apparent body segment and the two eyes in a little tubercle.
#arachnids #Opiliones (and #bloomscrolling I guess?)