Marc Whitaker · @marc_w
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ArachnaMania · @lhart
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Walter S. · @truecolour
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This little crab spider (Misumena vatia) can change colour to match the flower it is resting on. It just waits with its legs outstretched until a prey comes near and then grabs it.

#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #animals #arachnida #arachnids #spiders #misumena #misumenavatia #spinnen #Krabbenspinne

Last updated 2 years ago

Walter S. · @truecolour
407 followers · 139 posts · Server photog.social
neville park · @nev
780 followers · 3005 posts · Server flipping.rocks

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

#Mitestodon #mites #arachnids #Arthropoda #arachnida #Acari #Oribatida #galumnidae

Last updated 2 years ago

JonnyB · @jon
15 followers · 125 posts · Server aus.social

A female golden orb spider with the so small male above. Isn’t nature amazing! We have them all over our garden at the moment.

#arachnida #australianspiders

Last updated 2 years ago

ArachnaMania · @lhart
7 followers · 33 posts · Server mstdn.jp
ArachnaMania · @lhart
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Mark Scott · @marklscott
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Ferdy · @ferdy
34 followers · 13 posts · Server universeodon.com

The Avatar movie franchise aims to create an alien jungle ecosystem from imagination, yet still can't match actual reality on planet Earth. These moon-walking disco spaceships are neotropical harvestmen, specifically Phareicranaus gracilis and Phareicranaus hermosa.

#naturephotography #arachnida #macro #wildlife

Last updated 2 years ago

Robert Back · @robertback
39 followers · 43 posts · Server mastodon.online
it's kat! · @kathimmel
414 followers · 2795 posts · Server mstdn.social

o, hey. i'm bagheera kiplingi, the (mostly) herbivorous jumping spider who mooches about in central america, snacking on delicious beltian bodies. nice to meet you.

#anomaly #Mexico #herbivore #arachnida

Last updated 2 years ago

sohkamyung · @sohkamyung
648 followers · 2153 posts · Server photog.social

(CW: Image of a spider.)

A Red Tent Spider (Cyrtophora unicolor) spotted at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore, on 2 July 2022. It builds a large, 3D web that looks like netting and then sits under a leaf placed in it. This one has biting midges on its abdomen.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/1 ].

#araneae #spiders #arachnida #arachnids #photography #singapore #nature #inaturalist

Last updated 2 years ago

RT @EmanueleBiggi@twitter.com

A portrait on white backlit background of one of the spikiest harvestmen (Opiliones, Gonylepidae) I ever saw in my life! Amazing animal I found in the cloud forest of Kosñipata valley in Peru.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/EmanueleBiggi/stat

#arachnida #gonyleptidae

Last updated 2 years ago

sohkamyung · @sohkamyung
650 followers · 2162 posts · Server photog.social

While taking shots of this Ichneumonid Wasp (family Ichneumonidae), I noticed something on its back leg. Zooming in, I saw it had a hitch-hiker: a Chernetid Pseudoscorpion (family Chernetidae). Taken at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore, on 1 May 2022.

On iNaturalist:
- inaturalist.org/observations/1
- inaturalist.org/observations/1

#Pseudoscorpiones #Pseudoscorpions #arachnida #arachnids #Hymenoptera #wasps #insects #photography #singapore #nature #inaturalist

Last updated 3 years ago

sohkamyung · @sohkamyung
650 followers · 2162 posts · Server photog.social

(Images behind a CW as Harvestmen are in the same class, Arachnids, as spiders.)

A Harvestmen (order Opiliones), spotted sitting on a leaf at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore, on 3 Oct 2021. Since it was keeping still, I took the chance to get close-up shots of it.

Harvestmen are not directly related to spiders. I seldom see Harvestmen locally.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/9 ]

#opiliones #arachnida #arachnids #photography #singapore #nature #inaturalist

Last updated 3 years ago