#opiliones — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opiliones, aggregated by home.social.
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27-Mar-2026
Surprise in #amber: exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe#arachnid order #opiliones aka #DaddyLongLegs
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27-Mar-2026
Surprise in #amber: exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe#arachnid order #opiliones aka #DaddyLongLegs
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27-Mar-2026
Surprise in #amber: exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe#arachnid order #opiliones aka #DaddyLongLegs
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27-Mar-2026
Surprise in #amber: exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe#arachnid order #opiliones aka #DaddyLongLegs
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27-Mar-2026
Surprise in #amber: exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe#arachnid order #opiliones aka #DaddyLongLegs
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Check out this outrageous NZ harvestman photographed by Sebastian Doak earlier this month near Charleston on the west coast of the South Island.
It's called Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor (yes, another incredible endemic NZ invertebrate still lacking a catchy common name). I've never seen one, but I want to!
The photos on the observation are CC-BY Sebastian Doak.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337191626
#entomology #nz #Opiliones #harvestman #green #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist
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Check out this outrageous NZ harvestman photographed by Sebastian Doak earlier this month near Charleston on the west coast of the South Island.
It's called Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor (yes, another incredible endemic NZ invertebrate still lacking a catchy common name). I've never seen one, but I want to!
The photos on the observation are CC-BY Sebastian Doak.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337191626
#entomology #nz #Opiliones #harvestman #green #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist
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Check out this outrageous NZ harvestman photographed by Sebastian Doak earlier this month near Charleston on the west coast of the South Island.
It's called Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor (yes, another incredible endemic NZ invertebrate still lacking a catchy common name). I've never seen one, but I want to!
The photos on the observation are CC-BY Sebastian Doak.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337191626
#entomology #nz #Opiliones #harvestman #green #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist
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Check out this outrageous NZ harvestman photographed by Sebastian Doak earlier this month near Charleston on the west coast of the South Island.
It's called Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor (yes, another incredible endemic NZ invertebrate still lacking a catchy common name). I've never seen one, but I want to!
The photos on the observation are CC-BY Sebastian Doak.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337191626
#entomology #nz #Opiliones #harvestman #green #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist
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Check out this outrageous NZ harvestman photographed by Sebastian Doak earlier this month near Charleston on the west coast of the South Island.
It's called Algidia viridata ssp. bicolor (yes, another incredible endemic NZ invertebrate still lacking a catchy common name). I've never seen one, but I want to!
The photos on the observation are CC-BY Sebastian Doak.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/337191626
#entomology #nz #Opiliones #harvestman #green #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist
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A nap ízeltlábúja a kaszáspókok Sclerosomatidae családjába tartozó Nelima sempronii https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/nelima-sempronii/talalatok #NelimaSempronii #Sclerosomatidae #kaszáspókok #Opiliones #CitizenScience #KözösségiTudomány
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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I only realized I'd captured this when I was going through my photos from yesterday! An opilionid (a silkless, venomless arachnid that goes by many common names) grips the edge of a leaf with its flexible, prehensile tarsi (the final segments of its legs).
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#Arachnid #Opiliones #Harvestmen
2 harvestmen sitting on this plant, the other I cannot picture from this angle but I can see their legs.
probably sitting and waiting to ambush unsuspecting insects looking to get some of that flower.
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CW: Not for #arachnophobics...
@autisticphotographer
within Arachnida, it belongs to Opiliones, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs, all names which are unfortunately shared with animals that aren't closely related to Opiliones. Sorry if that's too broad; hopefully someone else can be more helpful.maybe @russell could help.
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Today in #taxonomy: a bug-loving Redditor apparently got a tattoo of a fossil opilionid based on a figure from a @russell paper https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1458 :OpenAccess: (they link the original image and say elsewhere they found it "on Pinterest") and learns from commenters that it is not, in fact, a cellar spider… :thonking:
https://old.reddit.com/r/spiders/comments/1m438xu/i_got_my_first_tattoo_last_night/
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I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are
A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123150 :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: :OpenAccess:
#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids #Opiliones #Sclerosomatidae
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I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are
A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123150 :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: :OpenAccess:
#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids #Opiliones #Sclerosomatidae
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I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are
A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123150 :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: :OpenAccess:
#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids #Opiliones #Sclerosomatidae
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I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are
A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123150 :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: :OpenAccess:
#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids #Opiliones #Sclerosomatidae
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I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are
A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123150 :cc_by: :cc_nc_us: :cc_nd: :OpenAccess:
#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids #Opiliones #Sclerosomatidae
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(02).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(02).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(02).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(02).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(02).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(01).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(01).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
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Canestrini's Harvestman (Opilio canestrinii)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canestrini%27s_Harvestman_(Opilio_canestrinii)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-15_(01).jpg#Harvestman #Opiliones #Arachnid #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography