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Tokunosia tenuipes tuberculat ツブアシボソアカザトウムシ

2022, Japan

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Harvestmen - highly successful invertebrates with an ancient lineage

Harvestmen – highly successful invertebrates with an ancient lineage

Harvestmen, or harvest-spiders, are invertebrates in the order Opiliones. The very long-legged ones are sometimes called Daddy longlegs, but this common term is also used for crane flies, so its probably best to call then harvestmen or opilionids. They are an ancient order; the oldest opilionid fossil (Eophalangium sheari gen. et sp. nov.) dates from the Early Devonian (Pragian) Rhynie cherts,…

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Swipe for a second look--sometimes you need two perspectives to really appreciate how wonderfully weird some arachnids are, like this harvestperson! Check out those eyes. #amazingArachnids #exploreTinyWorlds --- #harvestmen #opilionid #arachnology #arachnidsofig #arachnidsofinstagram #macro #macrophotography #macro_photography #nature #naturePhotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #noFilter https://www.instagram.com/p/B73eZF9n5aD/?igshid=9m1xzbm824a0

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Spider In Da House

Spider In Da House

This late summer and early autumn our house has been invaded. It has become open-house to daddy longlegs and spiders. I don’t know if it is just us but there seem to be more of the blighters this year and the spiders, at least, seem to be much bigger.

Our garden having a large number of shrubs and me being reasonably tall, I am forever walking into a spider’s web when I am out for my nocturnal…

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