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💓2022 was a fruitful year for finding trombidiform mites - some highlights: 1 Allothrombium "Sumo" mite w/ attached larval erythraeids! 2 Microtrombidiid traversing the forest floor 3 intensely red & velvety Trombidium(?) species 4 super cute orange Trombiculid (adult chigger!)

^IDs in previous tweet thanks to Ray Fisher ! ...more interesting trombidiform mites seen this year: 1 Hydrachnidia(?) water mite from a puddle 2 Leptus sp w/ beautiful setation 3 odd wine-colored trombidioid near a pond 4 Erythraeid (i think?) traversing a lichenous landscape

iNatter abhiapc saw this Ant-Like Crab #Spider (Amyciaea forticeps) and its #ant prey (likely a weaver ant) in #India - it's our #TwoferTuesday Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/1… #arachnology #entomology #biodiversity #nature

I’m writing a poem atm about money spiders’ ballooning flight 🕷 Today was spent with thousands of them taking off (+ in my hair & on my notebook). I’m v.grateful to Angela Chuang, Moonsung Cho, Andy Reynolds, Erica Morley & Daniel Robert for the research they’re doing & sharing

Several recent posts of Portia hunting remind me that I have seen this smart lady eating a poor Herennia in the forest of Southern Taiwan.

When we spot sea spiders, they are usually on the seafloor or crawling on some organism. So it was a delightful surprise to see this sea spider swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. This sea spider belongs to the order Pantopoda, which literally means “all legs." Sounds about right...

Some coverage of our recent Biological Invasions review on joro spiders🕷️w/coauthors Dr. David Coyle Michael Sitvarin John Deitsch & David Nelson wired.com/story/please-s… Also featuring Dr. Catherine Scott (she/they)!

the scorpion genus Superstitionia, named for the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix AZ we found these to be fairly common under downed Yucca in high desert habitat of eastern San Diego county

Finally published!!!, the partial revision of the spider genus Phonotimpus (Phrurolithidae) in collaboration with late Norman Platnick and Guillermo Ibarra. 🕷️

Arachnids are awesome, include but not limited to spider and scorpions. Check out all those weird and unique arachnid groups on my new post! love how they are bizarrely different but similar at the same time #arachnid #spider #sciart #digitalart #illustration #ArtistOnTwitter

This is an absolute STEAL! Buy Jillian Cowle's incredible book, Amazing Arachnids, for 75% off!!!! #Arachnology #NatHist press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Wow!!! 14 new woodlouse hunter #spider species just dropped!! #Arachnology Arachnofiles

Curious about spider names? In Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society we classified >48'000 spider etymologies and modeled spatio-temporal patterns in naming practices: doi.org/10.1093/zoolin… -as a bonus, it includes a lot of spider trivia! /w Julien Pétillon Diego Fontaneto Stephen Heard et al.

"Dr. Scott and Dr. McCann say this new discovery underlines the importance of taking time to be curious and simply watch..." love it, great work, interesting story. Couldn't ask for more.

🕷️They mostly come at night... to prey on sleeping insects! New paper (with @ibycter) about the night-time marauding behaviour of candy-striped spiders! spiderbytes.org/2023/03/12/the…

& check out Lesley Evans Ogden's lovely write up in the NY Times here: nytimes.com/2023/03/11/sci…

Spider spotlight - This is a rainforest wishbone spider (𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑎) from eastern Australia. They are gorgeous, if I do say so myself. Their burrow has a main entrance (left) and a second escape chute that's concealed with a thin soil layer (right, soil layer broken)...

Triaenobunus pilosus! The first time I saw one I thought it dead and covered in fungus. It wasn’t and it isn’t. This is how it is and it is my favorite species of Triaenonychidae #Opiliones. I’ve only ever seen two, this is the second. Endemic to Tasmania.

it’s been a while since I’ve drawn my favorite spider, Walckenaeria acuminata

E32! Tom chats with Just the Zoo of Us 🐊🐌🦬 about learning to appreciate the little guys. What does it take to warm a previously cautious Floridian to the pleasures of invertebrate life? What changes, when you open your heart to all that creeps and crawls? grubbinginthefilth.com