#solifuges

[snototter]

A striped feather-legged solifuge (Solpugiba lineata) in Karatu, Tanzania

by erica_onnis

#striped feather legged solifuge #solifuges #wind scorpions #camel spiders #solpugiba lineata #solpugiba #solpugidae #solifugae #arachnida #arthropoda #wildlife: tanzania #wildlife: africa

[arachnophanatic]

Not a spider! An Arachnid in the order Solifugae, also called “camel spiders.”

The “jaws” aren’t fangs like spiders would have, but rather two strong vertical toothed pincers (yikes). After finding that out, I had to go get another look at it:

NEAT

#not a spider #I don’t expect to need that tag too often lol but I will be posting scorpions if I ever find those #camel spider #Solifugae #solifuges #arachnids

[jenfoundabug]

Solifuges (aka wind scorpions, sun spiders, or camel spiders) are such an underappreciated order of arachnids. Neither spiders nor scorpions, they're notoriously difficult to study since they don't do well in captivity and they hide very well in the wild. Also they are super fast. But don't let their double bitey mouth scare you - solifuges are non venomous and pose little risk to humans.

#solifuges #wind scorpions #camel spider #sun spider #bitey face #arachnid #nature appreciation #biodiversity #inaturalist #bugs #nature #animals #cool facts #nature photography

[backsack]

#i really enjoyed this gif i found on wikipedia #tragically this loop is slightly flawed. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae for full quality as well as interesting solifuge facts #meow

[onenicebugperday]

The "aggressive spider" post made me think of my favorite, most specialist, sweetest little bugs of all time, Sunspiders. (Who are not even spiders)

They are very much attracted to shade since they like to borrow under, like plants and stuff, but as a result, are often seen chasing people through the desert, which sounds goofy but ppl really hate it for them.

Ive noticed that solifugae in general are for some reason, incredibly vilified? (There are actually people who believe they kill and eat camels,,, how?) There are like countless misconceptions about these little guys :( but i love them forever and am kissing them in my heart

I deeply love solifuges! Unfortunately my first introduction to them was a chain email when I was in high school circa the early 2000s, maybe 2004 or so, that was some sort of weird pro-war-in-Iraq propaganda about "what our troops are dealing with over there." It included the below photo and a whole bunch of made up "facts" about camel spiders that made them sound absolutely terrifying.

For those who are unfamiliar, this photo uses false perspective and these two lil babes are each only about two inches long. Claims that they're venomous and somehow kill camels or chew their stomachs out are obviously not even close to reality. In fact, solifuges don't have venom at all. They look a little scary and alien if you're unfamiliar with them but they're fairly harmless!

Also they have adorable little faces...

An angel :') Photo by laurenzarate

#bugs #arachnids #solifuge #camel spider #windscorpion #sun spider #legal-bastard #the more you know

[nigelpuppy]

faux solifuge stamp

print & sticker

#my art #solifuge #animals #camel spider #stamp #arachnid #digital art #arthropods #desert #nature #photoshop #2023 art #gallery tag #nigelpuppy

[neanderthalfakemon]

#127 - Saharachnid

#fakemon #pokemon #ground type #bug type #solifuge #camel spider #sun spider #dromedary #desert #arachnid

[goth-ethite]

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/136664681

#solifuge #windscorpion #uv

[horsebeast]

#im obsesseddd i love this thang & the way its moving its mandibles in the video #horse words #solifuge #arachnids #bugs

[crevicedwelling]

If you could play as any type of anthropomorphic arthropod in a game, what arthropods would you gravitate towards and why?

house centipede character for extreme agility and dexterity stats. lasso + sting play style. can outrun most enemies, shed legs if trapped, and very good regen ability. venom can one-shot anything unarmored and smaller than it. low HP, very weak to spiderwebs, can’t fight anything bigger than it, but probably the most fun

Rhagodes solifuge for a berserker type melee experience. not as tanky as a scorpionid, lacks venom, and no armor in the back, but the front end is snowplow/meat grinder/pruning shears type mouthparts that just shred anything they meet. very strong against ants:

see also Manticora, Amblycheila, Sia ferox for similarly vicious insect counterparts

non-combat wise, a parthenogenetic roach like Pycnoscelus surinamensis would be fun for the clone army of followers that you’d accumulate. maybe eumenine wasps or mud daubers would make for a chill pottery-building game + caterpillar hunting minigame after the pot is completed. maintaining a colony of social atemnid pseudoscorpions in a crevice would be a fun building sim (gotta spin webs, brood eggs, set traps for passing bugs)

#fun ask! #bugs #cw bugs #solifuge #centipede

[snototter]

A solifuge of the genus Rhagodima in Tamil Nadu, India

by deepakdeshpande

#solifuges #wind scorpions #camel spiders #rhagodima #arachnids #rhagodidae #solifugae #arachnida #arthropoda #wildlife: india #wildlife: asia

[vii-spider]

fakemon!

ursnug is based on teddy bears and solifugae

urstinger is based on sun bears and house centipedes

both are a pun on "bugbear"- another word for boogeyman. which is also why urstinger is striped like that. its a beetlejuice reference!

up until the moment i started the render i wasnt sure what type to make urstinger, since ghost and dark were both good fits. in the end i decided dark would make more sense, since i already have a bug ghost type in my dex

#pokemon #fakemon #fakemon art #fakemon concept #bug type #dark type #bear #sun bear #centipede #bug #solifuge #solifugae #teddy bear solifuge #bug type pokemon #dark type pokemon #my art #artists on tumblr #btw my pen fuckin died at the end of this lmao #i dont like the shading on urstinger but i couldnt redo it bc of that

[bumblechub]

today's drawing is another bit of mimicry-trickery...

the spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) has an appendage on its tail that REMARKABLY mimics an arachnid. it even jitters it in a little figure-eight to copy the movements. to me, it looks kind of like a solifuge? which are found in almost all desert biomes.

in reality, they use their tails to lure in birds to eat, but I think it's just as likely they could lure in a lovestruck fool...😅😍

#bug art #bug #bugs #bugblr #id in alt #camel spider #snake #spider #viperidae #spider-tailed horned viper #solifugae #wind scorpions #sun spiders #solifuge #arachnida #arachnids

[artapir]

I saw a horrible video once of a gecko getting its face chewed off by a solifugid. I want to think that in some alternate world, that solifugid assimilated the gecko's genome and then pupated and eventually a hybrid of the two emerged. So in remembrance of that horrific interaction, have a solifugecko.

Midjourney 6

#ai synthesis #camel spider wind scorpion sun spider solifuges #solifugae x lizard hybrid #reptile x arachnid chimera #extrasolar and panspermic desert fauna #nature trauma

[onenicebugperday]

@digita1garden​ submitted: Various friends from the Phoenix area of Arizona, USA. I would appreciate ids on these guys if possible; I have possible id’s for a few of them but I am nowhere near sure at all (other than the bark scorpion (#6), hornworms (#7), and black widow (#8) which I am fairly sure of).

All of these friends were left where they were found, other than the hornworms which were relocated to a different plant of the same species to accommodate our trimming of their original plant.

What a lovely bunch of friends! They are in order: an angle-winged katydid in the genus Microcentrum, a Polistes paper wasp possibly Polistes arizonensis, solifuge aka camel spider but don’t ask me species because idk, a plusiine looper moth, an elegant bush katydid, rip to the scorpion’s cricket dinner, hornworms as you said but specifically pink-spotted hawkmoths, a widow as you said, giant crab (huntsman) spider, and finally RIP to the dead sphinx in the last photo - I’d need a photo of the other side to have a better idea of species on that one.

I MUST share  photo of the adult version of the hornworms, though, because they are beautiful!

Hehehe pink. Photo by royaltyler

#spider #bugs #animals #arachnids #submission #insects #katydid #angle winged katydid #wasp paper wasp #Polistes #arizona paper wasp #solifuge #camel spider #moth #noctuidae #plusiine looper moth #elegant bush katydid #scorpion #bark scorpion #dead bugs #predation #caterpillar #larva #sphinx moth #pink spotted hawkmoth #Latrodectus #widow #huntsman #huntsman spider #giant crab spider

[jiubilant]

skyrim's giant spiders are known in some regions as "beardcutters." according to several old tales, the spiders use their fearsome pincer-jaws to clip the beards of wayward warriors, which are then used to line the spiders' underground nests

#was reading about solifuges <3