Viele wissen gar nicht, dass es so coole Tierchen wie diesen Moosskorpion auch in Deutschland gibt. OK - sie fallen kaum auf, weil sie wirklich sehr klein sind :-) Natürlich sind sie für uns Menschen auch komplett ungefährlich.
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#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 
#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae
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.
#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #mites #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae #Acari #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae
i am very tired but here's a pseudoscorpion i found under a log the other day
#bugstodon #PseudoscorpionPsaturday #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae
I was just poking around the garden today in a spare moment and had two unexpected arachnid discoveries!!
1. A hackled orbweaver (_Uloborus glomosus_), one of the very few venomless spiders, that also makes orb webs with a fuzzy, glueless silk not often used for aerial webs—I rarely come across them and never, I think, in my own garden.
2. A new kind of pseudoscorpion—not the tiny yellowish cthoniids I'm used to, but a HUGE beast with sturdy claws, like 3mm long! I think it's family Chernetidae.
#arachnids #spiders #pseudoscorpions #Arachnida #Araneae #Uloboridae #Pseudoscorpiones #Chernetidae
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.
Pseudoscorpions, maybe genus Paratemnoides, feeding on an ant that they had caught. Spotted at Thomson Nature Park, Singapore on 22 Dec 2024.
Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids with pincers that resemble scorpions (hence the name) and considered beneficial as they feed on ants, moths, booklice, mites, etc.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255849595 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Arachnids #Arachnida #Pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones
#PseudoscorpionPsaturday, why not.
#bugstodon #arachnids #pseudoscorpions • #Arachnida #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae
#Arachtober 2: I wonder how long I can go without posting a spider? This is a pseudoscorpion from my yard. These bizarre-looking but harmless arachnids live all over the world, but unless you're looking for them you might never see them. They live in caves and under rocks and leaf litter and tree bark and such, and the largest in the world is only about a centimetre long.
#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions • #Pseudoscorpiones #Chthoniidae
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