#arachnology

[platypu]

orb weavers' sexual dimorphism is hilarious to me like.

me and my big beautiful wife

#northern golden orb weaver #spiders #arachnids #ecology #bugblr #Nephila pilipes #arachnology #zoology #nature #australia

[amnhnyc]

🕷️Meet Joe Arguelles, a comparative biology Ph.D. student in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School. His research focuses on understanding the molecular drivers of the incredible mechanical properties of spider silks.

🕸️He also studies the evolution of “prey capture systems” (silk, venom, and vision) in active hunting spiders, and how these genes have changed in response to the loss of web-spinning behavior.

#spiders #silk #spider silk #stem #halloween #research #museums #did you know #fact of the day #amnh #cool facts #arachnids #arachnology #phd #science #nature #natural history

[bugthebard]

References:

Dunlop, J. A., Anderson, L. I., Kerp, H., & Hass, H. (2003). Preserved organs of Devonian harvestmen. Nature, 425(6961), 916–916. https://doi.org/10.1038/425916a  

Machado, G., & Raimundo, R. L. G. (2001). Parental investment and the evolution of subsocial behaviour in harvestmen (Arachnida Opiliones). Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 13(2), 133–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2001.9522780

Martens, J. (1993). Further cases of paternal care in Opiliones (Arachnida). Tropical Zoology, 6(1), 97–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1993.10539212

Mora, G. (1990). Paternal care in a neotropical harvestman, Zygopachylus albomarginis (Arachnida, Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Animal Behaviour, 39, 582-593.

Nazareth, T. M., & Machado, G. (2009). Reproductive behavior of Chavesincola inexpectabilis (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) with description of a new and independently evolved case of paternal care in harvestmen. Journal of Arachnology, 37(2), 127–134. https://doi.org/10.1636/ST08-32.1

Shear, W. (2009). Harvestmen: Opiliones—Which include daddy-long-legs—Are as exotic as they are familiar. American Scientist, 97(6), 468-475.

#bugblr #bug art #harvestmen #comic #bugs #daddy long legs #arachnids #arachnology #science #science comic #educational comic #invert #invertebrate #snail #opiliones #outside bones

[telekitnetic-art]

FORMLINE SCORPION 🦂🌃

This piece was done as a contest entry for a local contest that unfortunately did not win. Because of that, I feel comfortable sharing it here. This was a pretty experimental piece and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out.

This piece in question was based off the Northern Scorpion (Paruroctonus boreus), which is the only species of scorpion that lives in Canada and also known to glow a bright blue under UV light. (pictured below)

I'm kinda sad I didn't win, but I'm still proud of how the piece turned out. (Also this piece got finished around the end of October last year, so it's been on the backburner in terms of posting for a while lmao)

#cw insects #cw arachnid #formline art #indigenous art #native art #telekitnetic art #scorpion #northern scorpion #arachnology

[spiderdaynightlive]

It's been a long day.

You're exhausted.

And while your eyes are usually incredibly sharp, for this ability, your ancestors traded away every. last. scrap. of night vision.

Nevertheless, the dark is full of predators. So, on the underside of a leaf, a Lyssomanes jumping spider mom remains awake, vigilantly listening and feeling for any threats to her spiderlings.

(this is part of @franzanth's Insert An Invert project, meant to get y'all curious about bugs and other Invertebrates, so you try including em in your art. February's theme is "Relationships")

#insert an invert #now be inspired and go draw spiders #jumping spiders #id in alt text #bugs #cw spiders #invert_macro #arachnology #wildlife #nature

[sixteenseveredhands]

Rare images of a leafcutter bee sharing its nest with a wolfspider:

These photographs were taken in Queensland, Australia, by an amateur photographer named Laurence Sanders.

The leafcutter bee (Megachile macularis) can be seen fetching freshly-cut leaves, which she uses to line the inner walls of her nest. The wolfspider moves aside, allowing the bee to enter the nest, and then simply watches as the leaf is positioned along the inner wall.

After inspecting the nest together, they return to their resting positions -- sitting side-by-side in the entryway to the nest.

The bee seems completely at ease in the presence of the wolfspider, which is normally a voracious predator, and the spider seems equally unfazed by the fact that it shares its burrow with an enormous bee.

This arrangement is completely unheard of, and the images are a fascinating sight to behold.

Sources & More Info:

Brisbane Times: The Odd Couple: keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'

iNaturalist: Megachile macularis

#entomology #arachnology #leafcutter bee #wolfspider #symbiosis #cool animals #cool bugs #bees #spiders #nature #cute #insects #arachnids #australia #props to the photographer #laurence sanders #this is a cute couple #but their babies would be terrifying

[cursingcoyote]

Bejeweled Thyme

#original photographers #original photography on tumblr #nature #nature photography #landscape #thyme #spider web #morning dew #shiny #macrophotography #macro #arachnids #arachnology

[apsciencebydan]

The perpetually-glum face of Ms Maevia hobbsae 😐

(She's designed to disappear into dried gasses and does a really good job of it, but I spend a lot of my waking hours finding creatures who don't want to be found)

Technically she belongs in genus Paramaevia, but the genus is being revised (Paramaevia will cease to exist, and its species moved to Maevia) and I've had the pleasure of assisting the arachnologist doing the revision with specimens I've found.

#nature #animals #photography #bugblr #science #invertebrates #spiders #salticidae #arachnology

[skydarcyedwards]

Raindrops on spider silk.

Sky Edwards

2022

Donnelly River

Canon EOS 60D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

#naturemacro #spider web #macro #water drop macro #naturephotography #macro photography #arachnology #arachnids #silk #water #transparent #sky darcy edwards #donnelly river village #donnelly river #western australia #australian nature

[mastigusa]

Forgot this account exists sorry, I'm not good at being active on two social media platform simultaneously.

Here's a freshly molted (?) Holoscotolemon querilhaci nymph. The only thing crawling under a stone almost too big and too heavy to move around, it didn't really felt rewarding.

#opiliones #harvestmen #arachnids #holoscotolemon #cladonychiidae #bugs #bugblr #arachnology #macrophotography

[orofeaiel]

Spider Amongst Slime Mold

#artists on tumblr #original photographers #original photography #hiking #pacific northwest #nature #washington #pnw #nikon #orofeaiel #spider #macro photography #goblincore #arachnids #Arachnology #small worlds

[goblinsstolemybrain]

So, I've been using this app for a day and I am loving it! Why didn't anyone tell me that Tumblr was so fun??

Anyway, I'm looking for more people and tags to follow, so I thought I'd put together a quick post and see if I can find some like-minded folk.

I'm here for:

1. Writers and readers - I'm an indie author and I'd love to connect with other authors and other readers. I'm particularly into fantasy, horror, and sci-fi.

2. Creatures - any accounts that post pics/videos of animals (especially bugs, spiders, reptiles, and birds).

3. Warhammer - build/paint/play/read Warhammer? Say hi!

4. Various fandoms such as LOTR, Willow, Dark Crystal, etc

5. More books. Always more books.

If any of these things sound like you, please say hi!

Thanks!

#writeblr #bookishlife #bookish #tbr #writersociety #authors on tumblr #warhammer #entomology #arachnology #creature #book tumblr #booknerd

[awehaven]

The Large & The Small.

A strapping Wolf Spider emerges from the pool & a tiny Jumping Spider poses, proudly showing off his new haircut.

#robin fifield photography #photographers on tumblr #awehaven #andalucia #andalucia nature #flora and fauna #jumping spider #arachnids #spiders #wolf spider #arachnophobia #arachnology

[swainathan]

Arachnida: the Spiders and Scorpions of Pokemon

#pokemon #digital art #my art #art #nintendo #pokemon art #digital painting #sketch #sinnoh #johto #unova #alola #paldea #bug pokemon #bugs #arachnids #entomology #arachnology #spinarak #ariados #joltik #galvantula #dewpider #araquanid #tarountula #spidops #gligar #gliscor #skorupi #drapion

[grigadf]

Eresus kollari

I found this guy on the highway, him chilling in the dust and not caring about anything. My city is currently experiencing a major flood, so that highway was half-flooded(but the water won't get any higher) and no cars are passing by, so he's quite safe there :)

#bugblr #bugposting #arachnids #arachnology #arachnid #cute spider #spiders #spider #cool bugs #bug #bugs #arthropods #invertebrates

[pelagodes]

this beauty is a shoreline wolf spider, criminally underrated beach dwellers. I love them so much, whenever they’re fleeing they hop away like toads rather than run.

#wolf spider #shoreline #arctosa #spiders #spider #entomology #arachnology #arachnid