#sun spiders

[chimerarachnid]

Just a busy, little furry friend very hard at work.

[razehider]

empty threats don't bother me, but "i hope you find a lifer at half past eight in the evening with no external light source on you" is scary. it can happen. fortunately, this iberian solifuge (Gluvia dorsalis) turned out to be cuter in motion in a shitty blurry high ISO phone video than it would've been in any decent photos i couldn't have taken

(August 9th, 2025)

[spid3rs0up]

New arachnid names

Explaining all the different arachnids to people can be really awkward because 90% of their common names are ___ spider or ___ scorpion. No wonder people have an issue with assuming every arachnid is a spider. And using scientific names is awkward in its own way and I'm still trying to memorise alot of them. So going through all the arachnids is like.. What kind of a fucking bug is this? This is a camel spider. It is not a camel or a spider. What kind of a fucking bug is this? This is a whip scorpion. It is not a whip or a scorpion What kind of a fucking bug is this? This is a whip spider. It is not a whip or a spider. What kind of a fucking bug is this? This is a psuedo scorpion. It is not fake or a scorpion What kind of a fucking bug is this? This is a horseshoe crab. It is not a crab or a horseshoe What kind of a fucking bug is this? This is a tick spider. It is not a tick or a spider.

They all need better alternative common names like Vinegaroon for whip scorpions. Why are solifugae sun spiders or camel spiders or wind scorpions. How does it have 3 separate common names, all implying it's a different arachnid??? The scientific name is a lil awkward for me to say but you could take its meaning and turn that into Sun Runners. That sounds cool, easy to say, it describes what they do. Sun runners is awesome actually, I'm using that now.

my other dyslexia friendly suggestions: Whip spiders/Tailless Whip Scorpions(Amblypygi) -> whipper-snippers fuck that's actually a good one too... Psuedoscorpions(Pseudoscorpiones) -> True Scorpions

Hooded tick spiders(Ricinulei) -> Rice-balls

[this-great-world]

A solifuge, frequently called camel spiders, sun spiders, or wind scorpions

[bumblechub]

today's drawing is another bit of mimicry-trickery...

the spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) has an appendage on its tail that REMARKABLY mimics an arachnid. it even jitters it in a little figure-eight to copy the movements. to me, it looks kind of like a solifuge? which are found in almost all desert biomes.

in reality, they use their tails to lure in birds to eat, but I think it's just as likely they could lure in a lovestruck fool...😅😍

[antiqueanimals]

Animals of the Desert. Written by J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson. Illustrated by Colin Threadgall. 1971.

[trilobutch]

solifuges (aka sun spiders)

[razehider]

if my first encounter with Gluvia dorsalis was a frantic attempt to photograph a busy individual under very low light, it makes sense that fate, in all its creativity, would make the second one a much smaller baby in an absurdly bright area. to some this might seem like a cruel prank, but as far as i'm concerned it was a cruel prank that allowed me to see two solifuges

(August 24th, 2025)