#harvestman

[onenicebugperday]

Spined harvestman, Marthana sp., Sclerosomatidae

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[kayinnasaki]

A surprise guest comes over for carrot!!!

[gray-warden]

I just realized I never posted photos of this really pretty harvestman i came across a while back. Note the green pedipalps and the dark and light spots on its back.

[platycryptus]

i post mostly original content on this blog but I just learned about a creature I need to immediately spread awareness of.

Its a type of harvestman from New Zealand called Acropsopilio. It has similar relatives elsewhere in the world (such as Caddo sp. from N.A) but they don’t quite rival its incredible form

i promise nothing could prepare you for what this beast looks like:

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(photo credit: Gonzalo Giribet on inaturalist)

[crevicedwelling]

finally got around to renovating the Cynortoides quadrispinosa. after the roundup, turns out I have over 70!

they’re a lovely armored harvestman from Jamaica, now introduced in South Florida where they appear to replace the native Libitiodes (formerly Vonones), a visually very similar genus with two species found from Ohio south to about where Cynortoides start.

they are peaceful animals, spending most of their time tucked into crevices with as many friends nearby as possible. also surprisingly sturdy, and can’t drop their legs like other harvestmen, having gone the beetle route of having a tough shelly body and equally sturdy limbs.

[hellsitegenetics]

my Valentine’s Day love letter is for chytridiomycota :D the grandmother of every single fungi on the planet, the chytridiomycota is somehow unlike any other fungus in varying ways

such as its environment. chytridiomycota are largely aquatic,yet they’re one of the most common land parasites :D on the same topic, their spores are flagellated in order to literally swim through the water, which is unique almost entirely to them.

Chytrids are also one of the only fungi that reproduce oogamously relating them closer to LAND ANIMALS !!!! Than any aquatic creature or fungi.

This makes me believe that they actually had a hand in the creation of humans during evolution, since fungus and human genomes are so incredibly close to each other. It’s one of the most simple fungi but it’s so incredible to me :D 🖤🖤🖤

String identified:

at’ a tt ctcta : t gat g g t at, t ctcta a t g ag a

c a t t. ctcta a ag aatc,t t’ t t c a aat : t a tc, t a agat t ta tg t at, c at t t t.

Ct a a t g tat c ga atg t c t A AA !!!! Ta a aatc cat g.

T a tat t acta a a a t cat a g t, c g a a g a c c t ac t. t’ t t g t t’ c t : 🖤🖤🖤

Closest match: Odiellus spinosus genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Harvestman

[herpsandbirds]

Harvestman (Graecophalangium sp.), juvenile, family Phalangiidae, order Opiliones, Peloponnese, Greece

Harvestmen, also known as Daddy Long Legs, are not spiders, but are in a separate group of arachnids.

They are not venomous, but instead seize and tear apart prey with their chelicerae. (They can eat solid food, unlike spiders, which must liquify their prey).

They only have one body segment, unlike spiders (which have 2), and most have only a single pair of eyes.

There is also a group of spiders, less commonly, called Daddy Long Legs, the Cellar Spiders, family  Pholcidae. Craneflies (Tipuloidea) are also sometimes called Daddy Long Legs.

photograph by Aris Kolokontes

[ostracartderms]

In the Devonian, a Palaeocharinus tuberculatus trigonotarbid hides behind a lycophyte stem as a potentially hungry Eophalangium sheari climbs over from a neighbouring plant.

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day - Arachtober!

Found this harvestman (probably genus Leiobunum) trolling for prey on a mostly-chewed leaf last July.

[creatureimages]

triaenonychidae is when the harvestman does spikes

and it's more triaenonychid the more spikes it does

and if it does a real lot of spikes

it's triaenobunus

(holonuncia, equitius, and triaenobunus from top to bottom)

[arthropod-diagnosis]

May you diagnose.. this.. this handsome beast...

Name: The Melodious Ricky Scamper

Skill: Window Shopping

Quote: "You just gotta take it in stride, man!"

[onenicebugperday]

Pink feather boa millipede, Gosodesmus claremontus, Andrognathidae

Found primarily in California

Photos 1-3 by mhedin, 4 by kueda, 5 by merav, 6 by yetikat, 7-9 by chloe_and_trevor, and 10 (for scale) by biosam

[apsciencebydan]

Day 26 of my 2023 favorites: North Carolina Harvestpeople!

Just some very silly little guys and I love them. No further notes.

[momijigari]

I will never let the Harvestman catch me again (Same post on twitter)

[scarfscrawls]

Haunted Harvestmen - Hayboo and Effighast!

Hayboo love to hide in old, rotting hay as it protects them from the sun, which they're not fully used to.

Effighast are a familiar sight in the farmer's fields of Urzavos. Not only do they shoo away pesky Bug and Flying type 'Mons that would destroy crops, they have a keen sense to what crops are thriving and withering.

These 'Mons tend to be bulky special attackers. These Mons know moves such as Will-o-Wisp, Hex, Sunny Day and Solar Beam.

Happy Fakemon Friday!

[crevicedwelling]

sharing the last pawpaw (Asiminia triloba) of the season with the Cynortoides. while I initially assumed they did not eat much other than scavenged insects, I’ve found they like certain fruits, such as tomatoes, but not the carrot or apple recommended by old caresheets for related species.

pawpaws are relatively rich in fat and protein, so I guessed right that they’d be popular with the harvestmen. photo taken through plastic or else they’d flee, they’re more skittish about moving air than they are of light.