For 48 years the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition has garnered some of the most awe-inspiring and illuminated images of all that’s visible once placed under a light microscope. The 2022 contest continues the tradition with a captivating collection that exposes the minuscule details of life on Earth. Winning images zero in on the prickly hairs covering a daddy long-legs, the trippy patterns of a marine snail’s tongue, and the tessellation-like heads of a slime mold. More

Harvestmen are arachnids in the order Opiliones. The scientific name of this group comes from the Latin word opilo, which roughly translates to shepherd. At one time European shepherds used stilts to look over their sheep, and it is thought that the look of this arachnid’s body atop its long legs inspired the comparison. Harvestmen are referred to by many common names including shepherd’s spiders, harvest spiders, reapers, and here in the United States where our fauna is dominated by…

This spider have some long legs

There's a spider in the bath!

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