Mike SmalePhoto a Day 55: Tangled Up
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#Photography #Spiders #Spiderweb #Web #Arachnids #Gardens #Art #Artwork #BuyIntoArt #GiftShop #HomeDecor
Matt PotterPretty sure that 99% of the world’s current problems come from us overestimating how smart algorithms actually are.
Today, Google’s top prediction as I began to type, “Do insects and arachnids share a common ancestor” is: “Do insects and arachnids share a Coke.”
ABC FeedsHow 50 years of research turned this town into WA's trapdoor spider capital
By Eliza Bidstrup
Tammin residents are celebrating a 50-year study into trapdoor spiders that unearthed the world's oldest recorded arachnid, and is still going strong.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-05/trapdoor-spider-tammin-professor-york-main/105671634
neville parkThe 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
Tammin celebrates pioneering academic who studied its trapdoor spiders
By Eliza Bidstrup
Tammin residents are celebrating a 50-year study into trapdoor spiders that unearthed the world's oldest recorded arachnid, and is still going strong.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-05/trapdoor-spider-tammin-professor-york-main/105671634
Plazi Species#NewSpecies!
New short-tailed whipscorpion from #china just snuck in:
Megaschizomus zhongshanensis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C75B5F-FFE8-D756-FF01-DFF3FEA0FEB3
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5661.1.3
#Zootaxa #MegaschizomusZhongshanensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #amazingarachnids #arachnids #scorpions #whipscorpions
danthebugmanWalked into the classroom this morning to find the hamorii sporting a fresh new exoskeleton 😍. #tarantulas #spiders #arachnids #tarantulasofthefediverse #tarantulasofmastodon #brachypelmahamorii #scienceteacher #classpets
AnthonyCyclops Jumping Spider presumably pointing at its next meal.
Fujifilm X-H1
Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2:1 macro
Raynox DCR-250
Godox V350f flash
AK Diffuser hood
Cropped and tweaked in Lightroom
#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografía #macro #macrophotography #arachnids #closeup #nature #wildlifewednesday
Fujifilm X-H1
Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2:1 macro
Raynox DCR-250
Godox V350f flash
AK Diffuser hood
Cropped and tweaked in Lightroom
#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografía #macro #macrophotography #arachnids #closeup #nature #wildlifewednesday
mgeriqueIt's not a scorpion, it's a tiny Dactylochelifer latreillei, just 2 mm long. This tailless pseudoscorpion is so small it feeds on mites, ants, and the like.
iPhone 15 Pro +lens for close focusing.
Spain. Alicante, late August.
No es un escorpión, es un diminuto Dactylochelifer latreillei de apenas 2 mm. Este Pseudo-escorpion sin cola es tan pequeño que se alimenta de ácaros, hormigas, etc…
Das ist kein Skorpion, sondern ein winziger Dactylochelifer latreillei, gerade mal 2 mm groß. Dieser schwanzlose Pseudoskorpion ist so klein, dass er sich von Milben, Ameisen und so weiter ernährt.
#macro #macrophotography
#insects #animals #nature
#shotonmobile #shotoniphone
#arachnids
Susannah 🍁An eye in the forest. Messy shared web; two lurking spiders. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/09/two-styles-of-web.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Arañas #Invertebrates
