#opiliones — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opiliones, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/594379/ Citizen Scientists Helped Decipher How Harvestmen Became Oddly Devoted Dads #CitizenScientists #Éire #GlaucoMachado #IE #Ireland #machado #MaternalCare #Opiliones #ParentalCare #Science #Species #Wildlife
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The Opiliones/harvesters/daddy long legs
https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2200094/the-opiliones-harvesters-daddy-long-legs
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The Opiliones/harvesters/daddy long legs
https://piefed.social/c/photography@lemmy.world/p/2200094/the-opiliones-harvesters-daddy-long-legs
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Say's armored harvestman (Libitioides sayi). Reported to hunt slow-moving arthropods but like most opiliones not opposed to scavenging. At night they clump together with others of the same species (use a 365nm flashlight to find them, because they fluoresce). Found under a log near the Mississippi River in West Feliciana Parish, LA. #harvestman #opiliones #cosmetidae #arachnid #nature #louisiana
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"The team compiled known sightings of frog-eating harvestmen and found that many of these events involved frogs that were still alive, which hints that the daddy longlegs might be hunting rather than scavenging, García says."
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"The team compiled known sightings of frog-eating harvestmen and found that many of these events involved frogs that were still alive, which hints that the daddy longlegs might be hunting rather than scavenging, García says."
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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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#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 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 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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#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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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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Eastern Harvestman : Alien Legs in the Understory
Spotted on a humid trail walk at Duke Farms, this strange long-legged creature was like something out of science fiction.
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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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#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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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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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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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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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?)
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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?)
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Eastern harvestman (𝘓𝘦𝘪𝘰𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮) living his best life in the staghorn sumac (𝘙𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢), from September 2019:
#DaddyLongLegs #harvestman #opiliones #arachnids #WildFruit #sumac
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Eastern harvestman (𝘓𝘦𝘪𝘰𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮) living his best life in the staghorn sumac (𝘙𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢), from September 2019:
#DaddyLongLegs #harvestman #opiliones #arachnids #WildFruit #sumac
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apropos of @Alice_Swaggen's opilionid post, i present: opilionid treadmill. i think one of the authors posted this video on twitter or something once? anyway enjoy
Escalante, I., Ellis, V.R. & Elias, D.O. Leg loss decreases endurance and increases oxygen consumption during locomotion in harvestmen. J Comp Physiol A 207, 257–268 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-020-01455-1 :ClosedAccess:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00359-020-01455-1 :scihub: -
There are not enough people talking about the Sadocus. Such a beautiful creature. Looks like a cross between a harvestman, a whip scorpion and a demon orchid. Amazing.
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A little harvestman sits at the center of a fiddlehead's spiral, like a minotaur at the center of a maze.
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A little harvestman sits at the center of a fiddlehead's spiral, like a minotaur at the center of a maze.
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Visited Combwell Woods at the weekend, in Kent (UK). It's an important site for bryophytes (which I know very little about). I left the ID-ing to the botanists and bryologists and stuck to enjoying the environment, admiring the harvestmen (and learning to key them out!), and taking a few photos. #Mosstodon #Opiliones #AncientWoodland
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In honor of the Opiliones that years ago entered the kitchen & climbed the counter - to eat Schnitzel crumbs! It rotated a crumb like a cob of corn.
#arachnid #opiliones #harvestman #schnitzel #germanartists #germanart #art #mastoart #fediart
