#pseudoscorpions — Public Fediverse posts

"Flies (Diptera) are particularly suitable transport hosts. They are highly mobile, capable of long-distance flight, and frequently visit the same types of transient habitats that pseudoscorpions depend on. By attaching themselves to a fly, pseudoscorpions can effectively outsource dispersal – reaching new habitats they could never access on their own."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/tiny-hitchhikers-in-a-big-world-how-pseudoscorpions-travel-on-flies/

#Flies #Pseudoscorpions #Nature

"Flies (Diptera) are particularly suitable transport hosts. They are highly mobile, capable of long-distance flight, and frequently visit the same types of transient habitats that pseudoscorpions depend on. By attaching themselves to a fly, pseudoscorpions can effectively outsource dispersal – reaching new habitats they could never access on their own."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/tiny-hitchhikers-in-a-big-world-how-pseudoscorpions-travel-on-flies/

#Flies #Pseudoscorpions #Nature

"Flies (Diptera) are particularly suitable transport hosts. They are highly mobile, capable of long-distance flight, and frequently visit the same types of transient habitats that pseudoscorpions depend on. By attaching themselves to a fly, pseudoscorpions can effectively outsource dispersal – reaching new habitats they could never access on their own."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/tiny-hitchhikers-in-a-big-world-how-pseudoscorpions-travel-on-flies/

#Flies #Pseudoscorpions #Nature

"Flies (Diptera) are particularly suitable transport hosts. They are highly mobile, capable of long-distance flight, and frequently visit the same types of transient habitats that pseudoscorpions depend on. By attaching themselves to a fly, pseudoscorpions can effectively outsource dispersal – reaching new habitats they could never access on their own."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/tiny-hitchhikers-in-a-big-world-how-pseudoscorpions-travel-on-flies/

#Flies #Pseudoscorpions #Nature

"Flies (Diptera) are particularly suitable transport hosts. They are highly mobile, capable of long-distance flight, and frequently visit the same types of transient habitats that pseudoscorpions depend on. By attaching themselves to a fly, pseudoscorpions can effectively outsource dispersal – reaching new habitats they could never access on their own."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/13/tiny-hitchhikers-in-a-big-world-how-pseudoscorpions-travel-on-flies/

#Flies #Pseudoscorpions #Nature

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115746512910604870

#Pseudoscorpions are #interesting and #biologically diverse #arachnids that are often overlooked due to their #smallsize. Many species are #grounddwellers or live in deadwood. The largest #taxon is the #Chernetidae, with approximately 726 extant #species. L. Laibe et al. (2025) described a new species of its genus #Attaleachernes from the eastern #Amazon region and also characterized the #habitat.
©This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Reference
L.Laibe et al.(2025)
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115746512910604870

#Pseudoscorpions are #interesting and #biologically diverse #arachnids that are often overlooked due to their #smallsize. Many species are #grounddwellers or live in deadwood. The largest #taxon is the #Chernetidae, with approximately 726 extant #species. L. Laibe et al. (2025) described a new species of its genus #Attaleachernes from the eastern #Amazon region and also characterized the #habitat.
©This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Reference
L.Laibe et al.(2025)
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115746512910604870

#Pseudoscorpions are #interesting and #biologically diverse #arachnids that are often overlooked due to their #smallsize. Many species are #grounddwellers or live in deadwood. The largest #taxon is the #Chernetidae, with approximately 726 extant #species. L. Laibe et al. (2025) described a new species of its genus #Attaleachernes from the eastern #Amazon region and also characterized the #habitat.
©This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Reference
L.Laibe et al.(2025)
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115746512910604870

#Pseudoscorpions are #interesting and #biologically diverse #arachnids that are often overlooked due to their #smallsize. Many species are #grounddwellers or live in deadwood. The largest #taxon is the #Chernetidae, with approximately 726 extant #species. L. Laibe et al. (2025) described a new species of its genus #Attaleachernes from the eastern #Amazon region and also characterized the #habitat.
©This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Reference
L.Laibe et al.(2025)
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115746512910604870

#Pseudoscorpions are #interesting and #biologically diverse #arachnids that are often overlooked due to their #smallsize. Many species are #grounddwellers or live in deadwood. The largest #taxon is the #Chernetidae, with approximately 726 extant #species. L. Laibe et al. (2025) described a new species of its genus #Attaleachernes from the eastern #Amazon region and also characterized the #habitat.
©This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Reference
L.Laibe et al.(2025)
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.4

#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.

The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146 :inaturalist:

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.

The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146 :inaturalist:

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.

The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146 :inaturalist:

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.

The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146 :inaturalist:

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.

The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146 :inaturalist:

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

The rain this morning brought out plenty of arthropods in the garden, including these two arachnids. A podocinid mite (https://bugguide.net/node/view/247922), a tiny mesostig with extremely long, thin front legs terminating in forked hairs; and a chthoniid pseudoscorpion, with its clawed pedipalps. Strangely akin.

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day

#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day

#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day

#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day

#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day

#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae

9-Jul-2025
Four newly-discovered species of #cave-dwelling #pseudoscorpions have jaws like dragons and are completely blind

not sure if it's a great idea to use imaginary animals as reference point to describe a new species?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089740 #science #evolution #newSpecies #arthropods #LifeOnTheEdge

9-Jul-2025
Four newly-discovered species of #cave-dwelling #pseudoscorpions have jaws like dragons and are completely blind

not sure if it's a great idea to use imaginary animals as reference point to describe a new species?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089740 #science #evolution #newSpecies #arthropods #LifeOnTheEdge

9-Jul-2025
Four newly-discovered species of #cave-dwelling #pseudoscorpions have jaws like dragons and are completely blind

not sure if it's a great idea to use imaginary animals as reference point to describe a new species?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089740 #science #evolution #newSpecies #arthropods #LifeOnTheEdge

9-Jul-2025
Four newly-discovered species of #cave-dwelling #pseudoscorpions have jaws like dragons and are completely blind

not sure if it's a great idea to use imaginary animals as reference point to describe a new species?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089740 #science #evolution #newSpecies #arthropods #LifeOnTheEdge

9-Jul-2025
Four newly-discovered species of #cave-dwelling #pseudoscorpions have jaws like dragons and are completely blind

not sure if it's a great idea to use imaginary animals as reference point to describe a new species?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089740 #science #evolution #newSpecies #arthropods #LifeOnTheEdge

I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!

1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.

2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.

#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae

I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!

1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.

2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.

#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae

I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!

1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.

2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.

#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae

I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!

1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.

2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.

#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae

I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!

1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.

2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.

#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae

I found a house pseudoscorpion in my bathroom. Really cool little creature. Apparently they live among humans and eat mites, fruit flies and other small annoying things. I learned that after throwing the lil gal outside. Should have carried her to the kitchen instead where I currently have annoying fruit flies.

(CW: closeup photo of a tiny arachnid)

#arachnid #Pseudoscorpions

I found a house pseudoscorpion in my bathroom. Really cool little creature. Apparently they live among humans and eat mites, fruit flies and other small annoying things. I learned that after throwing the lil gal outside. Should have carried her to the kitchen instead where I currently have annoying fruit flies.

(CW: closeup photo of a tiny arachnid)

#arachnid #Pseudoscorpions

I found a house pseudoscorpion in my bathroom. Really cool little creature. Apparently they live among humans and eat mites, fruit flies and other small annoying things. I learned that after throwing the lil gal outside. Should have carried her to the kitchen instead where I currently have annoying fruit flies.

(CW: closeup photo of a tiny arachnid)

#arachnid #Pseudoscorpions

I found a house pseudoscorpion in my bathroom. Really cool little creature. Apparently they live among humans and eat mites, fruit flies and other small annoying things. I learned that after throwing the lil gal outside. Should have carried her to the kitchen instead where I currently have annoying fruit flies.

(CW: closeup photo of a tiny arachnid)

#arachnid #Pseudoscorpions

I found a house pseudoscorpion in my bathroom. Really cool little creature. Apparently they live among humans and eat mites, fruit flies and other small annoying things. I learned that after throwing the lil gal outside. Should have carried her to the kitchen instead where I currently have annoying fruit flies.

(CW: closeup photo of a tiny arachnid)

#arachnid #Pseudoscorpions

@nev wow, a cool video!!

I’ve seen a few that were in the bale of hay we used to get for our rescued house rabbits.

#pseudoscorpions #arachnids #bugsAreCool

@nev wow, a cool video!!

I’ve seen a few that were in the bale of hay we used to get for our rescued house rabbits.

#pseudoscorpions #arachnids #bugsAreCool

@nev wow, a cool video!!

I’ve seen a few that were in the bale of hay we used to get for our rescued house rabbits.

#pseudoscorpions #arachnids #bugsAreCool

@nev wow, a cool video!!

I’ve seen a few that were in the bale of hay we used to get for our rescued house rabbits.

#pseudoscorpions #arachnids #bugsAreCool

@nev wow, a cool video!!

I’ve seen a few that were in the bale of hay we used to get for our rescued house rabbits.

#pseudoscorpions #arachnids #bugsAreCool

An #InverteFest treat: found a pseudoscorpion today, and not in one of the places I usually look! It was under a piece of plank abandoned in undergrowth by the lake.

These strange, tiny, harmless arachnids live everywhere but Antarctica, but are rarely seen. Most people have probably never heard of them. They prey on even tinier creatures.

#arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae?

An #InverteFest treat: found a pseudoscorpion today, and not in one of the places I usually look! It was under a piece of plank abandoned in undergrowth by the lake.

These strange, tiny, harmless arachnids live everywhere but Antarctica, but are rarely seen. Most people have probably never heard of them. They prey on even tinier creatures.

#arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae?

An #InverteFest treat: found a pseudoscorpion today, and not in one of the places I usually look! It was under a piece of plank abandoned in undergrowth by the lake.

These strange, tiny, harmless arachnids live everywhere but Antarctica, but are rarely seen. Most people have probably never heard of them. They prey on even tinier creatures.

#arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae?

An #InverteFest treat: found a pseudoscorpion today, and not in one of the places I usually look! It was under a piece of plank abandoned in undergrowth by the lake.

These strange, tiny, harmless arachnids live everywhere but Antarctica, but are rarely seen. Most people have probably never heard of them. They prey on even tinier creatures.

#arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae?

An #InverteFest treat: found a pseudoscorpion today, and not in one of the places I usually look! It was under a piece of plank abandoned in undergrowth by the lake.

These strange, tiny, harmless arachnids live everywhere but Antarctica, but are rarely seen. Most people have probably never heard of them. They prey on even tinier creatures.

#arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae?