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**Anthony** @FlashF1R3@pixelfed.social · 17h

The weather’s getting warmer so that means the little critters are coming out. I geared up my XH 1 with the battery grip, flash, and diffuser and went Easter egg hunting for #insects and #arachnids I’m sorry Arachnophobes, they’re out in full swing now and I can’t pass up a shot.

#photography #macrophotography #fotografie #photographie #naturephotography #nature #macro #fujifilm #laowa #godox #akdiffuser #lightroom #raw

Macro photo of a tiny spider in a tiny web against a blurry background of plants. The spider couldn’t have been taller than 2mm.

I’m not 100% sure what type of spider this is but my guess is it’s a juvenile orb weaver or garden spider. It was busy making its web and had no time to spend worrying about me with my camera.

Same spider as picture number 2 busy making its web for the night in hopes of catching dinner.

#raw

**Grooobv** @zorbama@veganism.social · 1d

Grooobv @zorbama@veganism.social

It was a relatively nice day, so I went out to take some photos. Here are some bugs I found.
Not sure what the black fly is exactly, could be a mosquito, could be a kind of midge.

A small black mite with red legs between the legs of a spider

A spider, a fly of some sort and a mite sharing common space

A browns spider with a small black mite between their legs

#spider #mite #diptera

**sohkamyung** @sohkamyung@photog.social · 2d

sohkamyung @sohkamyung@photog.social

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 ].

A small brown arachnid with eight legs and pincers.

Same description as first image. Here, seen with the leg of an ant which is longer than the pseudoscorpion.

Same description as first image. Here, a group of pseudoscorpions are feeding on an ant.

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · 4d

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #china just caught us:

Hippasosa yunnanensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E16D5C18-C352-5453-A176-46DB36DE9DCB
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1226.137240
#ZooKeys #HippasosaYunnanensis

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

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · Apr 11

Apr 11

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #china just caught us:

Aculithus languan

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D8C1A8E3-45BB-552D-BB13-79D6866B2FC0
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e153747
#BiodiversityDataJournal #AculithusLanguan

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

**Daan** @Kalmdaan@pixelfed.social · Apr 10

Apr 10

Daan @Kalmdaan@pixelfed.social

Giant silk spider, Tanzania. I know that some of these spiders have tiny males. Not sure if the little ones are males or maybe parasitic spiders of a different species.

#spider #arachnids #macro #wildlife #nature #omsystem #olympus

#olympus

**Hacker News** @h4ckernews@mastodon.social · Apr 5

Apr 5

Hacker News @h4ckernews@mastodon.social

Jumping Spiders

https://digital.tnconservationist.org/publication/?i=663361&article_id=3697028&view=articleBrowser

digital.tnconservationist.orgThe Tennessee Conservationist Jul/Aug 2020: Jumping Spiders“Spiders that jump? Will they jump towards me?” The answer is “not likely” since these spiders will jump away using a dragline of silk if you get too close. If …

#HackerNews #Jumping #Spiders

**Eve** @evelynefoerster@swiss.social · Apr 4

Apr 4

Eve @evelynefoerster@swiss.social

Spinnentieren / Arachnids

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · Apr 4

Apr 4

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#NewSpecies!
New water mite from #china just swam in:

Atractides cardiacus

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0396422E-FFE2-FF89-FE29-871A827AF68C
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2775
#ejtaxonomy #AtractidesCardiacus

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #acarology #acari #mites #watermite

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Apr 1

Apr 1

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The bold jumper loves the bees.

#spider #bee #JumpingSpider

**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Apr 1

Apr 1

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

I almost forgot it was #MiteMonday! From under one of my reliable dead logs just a few days ago, a mesostig with its prey, a tiny white springtail; a slug for scale; and a smaller, paler mesostig crossing paths with another springtail (which it did not try to eat).

A teardrop-shaped red-brown mite with a small translucent white thing in its mouthparts. It could be mistaken for an ant pupa but I promise it's a springtail.

The same mite and its prey are dwarfed by a small slug also on the underside of the log.

Another white springtail, this one identifiable as a poduromorph, comes face-to-face with a light brown mesostig only a little longer than itself. The mite's front pair of legs are long and thin, used a bit like antennae.

#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Mar 29

Mar 29

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

A transfer of life.

#spider #bee #arachnids

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · Mar 28

Mar 28

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #india just caught our attention:

Indothele amboli

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087A3-FFEF-FF9A-D6C6-FC5D884FF832
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2827
#ejtaxonomy #IndotheleAmboli

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

**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Mar 26

Mar 26

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

I did not expect to read the phrase "males have terminal nuptial gift sacs on their penises" today but here we are

A delightful paper comparing mating behaviour across _Leiobunum_ harvester species which have, or lack, nuptial gift-giving, out of Mercedes Burns' lab at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123150

#OpenAccess #Arachnews #arachnids

**Enrique Gil Alcubilla** @Enriquegil@mastodon.social · Mar 24 *

Mar 24 *

Enrique Gil Alcubilla @Enriquegil@mastodon.social

Detalle de la pequeña araña Thomisus onustus, araña cangrejo.
#invertebrados #invertebrates #macro #spider #araña #aracnidos #photography #nature #naturaleza #fotografia #arachnids

Detalle de la araña cangrejo (Thomisus onustus)

**Plazi Species** @plazi_species@mastodon.green · Mar 21

Mar 21

Plazi Species @plazi_species@mastodon.green

#NewSpecies!
New jumping spider from #china:

Zabka dianmian

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/380287A8-FF8E-FF84-A5E2-607CFD908691
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5538.3.1
#Zootaxa #ZabkaDianmian

#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider #jumpingspider #jumper

**Tom** @firephoto@mastodon.social · Mar 20

Mar 20

Tom @firephoto@mastodon.social

The other day when I finally got around to cleaning the computer out, and literally the cobwebs, I wondered to myself wtf spider is the one that always makes webs inside the case and is never seen. I think I might have found the subject. I just saw it crawling along but after taking the photos I noticed there was a random array of the fine webs on another loop of cable above this that look like what was inside.

#spiders #cobwebs #arachnids

**neville park** @nev@flipping.rocks · Mar 18

Mar 18

neville park @nev@flipping.rocks

During this recent spate of warmish weather I've been checking my go-to sumo mite (_Allothrombium_) trees. It's still too early for a dense population, but there are definitely a few out and about!

Here's an earlier video I took of sumo mites wrestling: https://youtu.be/qZ0Ml6VXujg