Scorpion-tailed spider & Season's greetings
It was exciting to come across this unique scorpion-tailed spider recently.
Arachnura higginsi is just 10 mm in length, but what wonderment in those few, tiny mm. This is a latero-ventral view, seen hanging in the centre of a small orb web in green shrubs.
These distinctive looking Australian spiders were given their common name because they sometimes curl the ends of their abdomens upwards in much the same way as a scorpion does - but there is no venom loaded sting to this tail.
Males are much smaller and lack the extended abdomen.
Link to ventral shot: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/52689669561/in/datepo...
Season's greetings to one and all. Wishing you all peace, joy and good health.
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Scorpion-tailed spider & Season's greetings
It was exciting to come across this unique scorpion-tailed spider recently.
Arachnura higginsi is just 10 mm in length, but what wonderment in those few, tiny mm. This is a latero-ventral view, seen hanging in the centre of a small orb web in green shrubs.
These distinctive looking Australian spiders were given their common name because they sometimes curl the ends of their abdomens upwards in much the same way as a scorpion does - but there is no venom loaded sting to this tail.
Males are much smaller and lack the extended abdomen.
Link to ventral shot: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/52689669561/in/datepo...
Season's greetings to one and all. Wishing you all peace, joy and good health.
© All rights reserved.