#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 
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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.
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i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day
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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.
Cool damp weather means the garden mulch is full of pseudoscorpions today!! 
Unfortunately my portable light wasn't charged so most of the photos didn't turn out. But here is one little fella approaching my finger and immediately noping out.
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Psaturday Pseudoscorpion!
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