NEW ZEFRANK about mites and spiders using static electricity! Also some other non-arachnid organisms I guess https://youtu.be/DxSrU-rqs7A

#bugstodon #arachnids #mites #spiders

#NewSpecies!
New whip spider from #brazil just snapped:

Charinus giganteus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D162774-FFA5-F146-10B7-FBEACB203D4F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.2.4
#Zootaxa #CharinusGiganteus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #spider #arachnids #whipspider #caves #cavespecies #cavebiology

#MiteMonday: a tiny _Podocinum_ mite found under a rock. Its extremely thin elongated front legs have forked hairs at the end, and it seems to use these legs like antennae to navigate.

Much better pictures here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/514391

#Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Podocinidae

“Most people, when they see one spider they start screaming. And here, we have 100,000 spiders and everybody wants to learn about them — to me that is hard to believe.”

Agreed!!

#arthropods #spiders #arachnids #araneae #spiderweb #worldslargest

Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist | CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/biggest-spiderweb-in-the-world-discovered-in-cave-9.6982173

Imagine, you build a #doppelgänger to distract your enemies! For the first time, researchers found #arachnids assembling fake #spiders (pictured) from tiny bits of silk, animal carcasses, and plant debris! https://www.science.org/content/article/s-no-spider-it-s-decoy

They look like art sculptures: imagine these skills and #selfawareness! The latter is usually connected with #intelligence in research ...
Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72371

#moreThanHuman #NatureMatchCuts #ecosystem #behaviour #sculpture

Up close with a Texas cave scorpion from UT Austin's Brackenridge Field Lab.

#Scorpions #Arachnids #Nature