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Harvestmen

Opiliones

Photo by JordiPrats
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Field Notes

Description:

Brown in color, darker on top, and large legs.

Habitat:

Spotted at Inwood Hill Park New York, USA.

Notes:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones

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Comments (3)
Mark Ridgway
I haven't found out yet Jordi. Maybe they fight too much.. maybe as you say they release them as a defence.. maybe they just aren't very well connected in the first place. They look like they would make a popping noise when they come off. I guess they just grow another one next moult. Anyway so often they have seven or six or five.. haven't seen any with none yet though. LOL! http://www.amazingnature.us/spiders/harvestmen.html
JordiPrats
Hi Mark, thanks for your comments, why is that? as a defensive strategy with predators?
Mark Ridgway
Excellent. It's got the right number of legs too. So often they're one or too short.

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WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
Photographed
PublishedApril 4, 2021

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