For the final of - and given it's nearly halloween - let's meet a fossil parasite! This beautiful tick was preserved in Eocene (~44–49 million year old) amber, and was reconstructed in 3D by using high resolution CT. Fossil left, digital render right.

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Arachtober is here! Banner by Ashley Bradford and Joseph Connors. Blog post by me....https://t.co/gvVQ25IhQN

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Welcome to the 15th year of Celebrate arachnids with us by sharing your photos of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids all month. We're glad to see growing arachnid enthusiasm around the web!

Banner by and I, with Rhomphaea projiciens, a cobweb spider.

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Some arachnid gijinkas that I personally satisfied of.
A year has passed and I still don't know how to gijinka-ing a mite.

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Spiders are COOL. Some walk on water, some hunt like cats & some stick their bums in the air, squirt out silk, & fly away on the wind like a balloon🎈🕷️⁣

Annually, the world's spiders eat the equivalent of the entire human population's weight in insects!😎⁣(3/4)

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Another jumping spider. Even though their brains are the about size of poppyseeds, some research suggests that they're capable of visualizing and stalking prey, planning paths, and other cognitive feats.

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A lot of science folks are posting some superb spider photos for so I thought I'd resurrect a few of my rather less scientific sketches. Maybe next year 31 spiders and their handlers...

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Horseshoe Crab, who just recently joined the chelicerate gang

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Brazilian Red Birdeater Tarantula
(Lasiodora difficilis)
This male tarantula is named "Cash". I don't know how anyone could look at this species and not fall in love. I mean look at those eyes and "feet"!

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× inspired by this 2018 paper, "Roly-Poly Egg Sacs: Isopods Used as Replacement Egg Sacs by the Wolf Spider Pardosa valens" (https://t.co/aNkhTuqNF7)

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New mom spoods will be available soon in my Etsy shop, baby spoods available in their own little matchboxes

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. sporting a new long-sleeve Arachnida shirt! ALL arachnids for ! Get one here at a discount before the month ends: https://t.co/dt4zXA4K36

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Battle of the urban spiders update! The araneophagic Lampona murina whitetail is breakfast for Pholcus phalangioides cellar spider. Prey becomes predator. I saw these two as I was heading out the door, guess who was late to her meeting but bears photos for sharing?

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Sneak preview of what I'm working on at the moment! These are tiny developing Steatoda nobilis spiders and I've been photographing the open egg sac since 1st October. and

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Getting my fix is easy when I keep finding spiders wandering into my house! This is a male Trochosa, looking elegant, as they do.

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Well is going quite well so far! Found this beautiful A. diadematus at the edge of the works car park at work today. She was huge, abdomen alone was 10-15mm & very well camouflaged. Couldn't get a better angle without disturbing her web.

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Whether arachnid-inspired work is ok for or not, Since I don't have many good photos, here's the recent arachnid I've done.
As the second-most speciose class of arthropods, I always think that arachnids should deserve more positive inspiration.

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Typopeltis crucifer
Pandinus inperator
Galeodes sp.

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Plexippus setipes
Heteropoda Venatoria

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クモガタ類で10月をお祝いする だそうなので。
(擬人化は許されるかどうか聞かないままに便乗)

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