neville park on Nostr: Pseudoscorpion Psaturday! Found this healthy-sized cthoniid (I think) under a rock in ...

Pseudoscorpion Psaturday! Found this healthy-sized cthoniid (I think) under a rock in the garden and watched it clean its claws with its chelicerae, which also have claws.

If you didn't know about this common and widespread but rarely observed order of arachnids, now you do! https://www.americanarachnology.org/about-arachnids/arachnid-orders/pseudoscorpiones/

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