Harvestmen are often scavengers, like this one that came to eat from moth bait painted on the trees. They have eight long, skinny legs and rounded bodies. They crawl all over trees and logs, finding ...
Philipe de Liz Pereira, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 You wouldn’t know it, being thousands of times their size and easily able to squish them under foot, but harvestmen, a.k.a. daddy longlegs, ...
Duke biology graduate student Brendan Lam studies the vision of harvestmen, a type of arachnid that looks like a spider.
Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. If critters with lots of legs make ...
This is a cross section through the eyes of a harvestman – more commonly known as a daddy longlegs. This arachnid is often misidentified as a spider, but it belongs to its own biological order, ...
Fossilized Douglassarachne acanthopoda, noted for its up-armored spiny legs, might have resemblance to modern harvestmen spiders, but with a more experimental body plan. LAWRENCE — More than 300 ...
TOP: An eastern harvestman, Leiobunum vitattum. ABOVE: A common harvestman, Phalangium opilio. Stacey Clementz Stacey Clementz Eastern harvestman, Leiobunum vitattum ...
The harvestmen, a diverse order within Arachnida, exhibit an intriguing array of defensive adaptations centred around chemical secretions produced by specialised scent glands. These secretions, which ...
Losing a leg early in life makes a male harvestman much more likely to grow up into a sneaker than into a fighter. Young male harvestmen (Forsteropsalis pureora) – sometimes known as daddy longlegs – ...
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