Lychas sp.
Marbled scorpion. Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia
Close up of a marbled scorpion. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
Centruroides sculpturatus, the Arizona bark scorpion. Tucson, Arizona, USA
Centruroides vittatus
Striped bark scorpion. Bastrop State Park, Texas, USA.
Eurybunus
Portrait of a desert harvestman. Anza Borrego, California, USA.
Entomologist Tom Myers watches a Paraphrynus tailless whipscorpion in a Belizean cave. Armenia, Belize
A Paraphrynus tailless whipscorpion walks along a limestone cave wall. Armenia, Belize
Paraphrynus
Paraphrynus sp. tailless whipscorpion. Despite a fearsome appearance, whipscorpions are shy, harmless animals. Armenia, Belize
Dinothrombium velvet mites are elephants among the acari. These raisin- sized arthropods roam the Sonoran Desert floor after the onset of summer rains. Tucson, Arizona, USA
A predatory velvet mite forages along a mossy log in an eastern deciduous forest. Urbana, Illinois, USA
Belicenochrus pentalatus
Short-tailed whipscorpion. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
This rare arachnid was found in a rotting log. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
Solifugae
An eremobatid windscorpion. Anza Borrego, California, USA.
Solifugae - windscorpion
Scurry County, Texas, USA.
Focus-stacked portrait of an eremobatid wind scorpion. Anza Borrego, California, USA.
Sun scorpions (Order Solifugae) may look scary, but in fact they are harmless animals. They are found in arid regions worldwide, where they are primarily active at night. California, USA
American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis (male) Laboratory animal at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Crassicrus lamanai
Portrait of a Belize cinnamon tarantula, a species and genus endemic to Belize. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
Belizean Cinnamon Tarantula. Armenia, Cayo District, Belize.
This wolf spider (Lycosidae)- perfectly camouflaged against the white sand- has captured a male ant. Florida, USA
Phidippus audax
Up close with a Phidippus jumping spider (Salticidae). Urbana, Illinois, USA
Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Morning sun catches an orb web in the sand scrub of central Florida. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Nephila clavipes golden silk spider. Isla Contadora, Panama
A Camponotus ant falls prey to a Hemicloea flat bark spider in the Australian mallee. Poochera, South Australia
Wolf Spider
This wolf spider (Lycosidae)- perfectly camouflaged against the white sand- has captured a male Odontomachus relictus ant. (Thanks to Brendon Boudinot for the identification). Florida, USA
Neoscona
Barn spider. Urbana, Illinois, USA
This immature widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) has built her web across a harvester ant nest entrance where she can easily catch incoming and outgoing worker ants. Hallelujah Junction, California, USA
Euryopis sp.
Predatory Euryopis spiders snatch foraging harvester ants (Veromessor pergandei) and drag them up grass blades to feed. Mojave National Preserve, California, USA
An Australian spider protects her egg sac from an overzealous photographer. Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Hibana gracilis Urbana, Illinois, USA
Green Lynx - Peucetia viridans Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Peucetia viridans
A green lynx spider feeds from a late-summer wasp. Austin, Texas, USA.
Synemosyna (Salticidae) is an ant mimic. Clinton Lake State Recreation Area, Illinois, USA
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