January 31, 2026 at 4:23 PM
🙏📯a few non-spider arachnid orders🎺 🙇
Amblypygi - (w/ young!) feeding on a cricket, in cave, Belize
Solifugae - under rock(?), Anza-Borrego, California
Pseudoscorpiones - forest floor, Oklahoma
Schizomida - under log, forest floor, Costa Rica
Amblypygi - (w/ young!) feeding on a cricket, in cave, Belize
Solifugae - under rock(?), Anza-Borrego, California
Pseudoscorpiones - forest floor, Oklahoma
Schizomida - under log, forest floor, Costa Rica
January 9, 2026 at 12:32 AM
🙏📯a few non-spider arachnid orders🎺 🙇
Amblypygi - (w/ young!) feeding on a cricket, in cave, Belize
Solifugae - under rock(?), Anza-Borrego, California
Pseudoscorpiones - forest floor, Oklahoma
Schizomida - under log, forest floor, Costa Rica
Amblypygi - (w/ young!) feeding on a cricket, in cave, Belize
Solifugae - under rock(?), Anza-Borrego, California
Pseudoscorpiones - forest floor, Oklahoma
Schizomida - under log, forest floor, Costa Rica
🐙🌿Here is your Sunday Solifugid - an arachnid in the family Solifugae. They have several common names - sun spider, camel spider, wind scorpion - but are neither spiders nor scorpions. They have no venom. They are predators, and have cool, double-crab-claw jaws at the bitey end. This one was--
July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🐙🌿Here is your Sunday Solifugid - an arachnid in the family Solifugae. They have several common names - sun spider, camel spider, wind scorpion - but are neither spiders nor scorpions. They have no venom. They are predators, and have cool, double-crab-claw jaws at the bitey end. This one was--
July 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
✨ Mutation March, day 12 - arachnid 🕷️
A sweet and simple solifuge combined with a lily. 🥰
#MutationMarch2025 #artchallenge #creaturedesign #solifugae #mutationmarch
A sweet and simple solifuge combined with a lily. 🥰
#MutationMarch2025 #artchallenge #creaturedesign #solifugae #mutationmarch
March 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
✨ Mutation March, day 12 - arachnid 🕷️
A sweet and simple solifuge combined with a lily. 🥰
#MutationMarch2025 #artchallenge #creaturedesign #solifugae #mutationmarch
A sweet and simple solifuge combined with a lily. 🥰
#MutationMarch2025 #artchallenge #creaturedesign #solifugae #mutationmarch
--holding still at night, which was lucky for me, because they're often running at full tilt. If seen in the daytime people sometimes claim that they'll chase you, but they're actually just trying to get out of the sun and into your shadow - "Solifugae" is from Latin for "sun" and "to flee."
July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
--holding still at night, which was lucky for me, because they're often running at full tilt. If seen in the daytime people sometimes claim that they'll chase you, but they're actually just trying to get out of the sun and into your shadow - "Solifugae" is from Latin for "sun" and "to flee."
i say this for a lot of bugs but god solifugae are just such perfect animals their faces their movements gufdgbhhbgfdhbfdsgd its so cute
August 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
i say this for a lot of bugs but god solifugae are just such perfect animals their faces their movements gufdgbhhbgfdhbfdsgd its so cute
June 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
#Eremobates AKA #CamelSpider. Non-venemous #arachnid, but delivers an extremely powerful bite from its 4 fangs, and has one of the largest jaw-to-body ratios of any animal.
We found this one hunting around at night.
#solifugae #windscorpion #arachnids 🕷️ #naturalist 🌿
We found this one hunting around at night.
#solifugae #windscorpion #arachnids 🕷️ #naturalist 🌿
March 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Eremobates AKA #CamelSpider. Non-venemous #arachnid, but delivers an extremely powerful bite from its 4 fangs, and has one of the largest jaw-to-body ratios of any animal.
We found this one hunting around at night.
#solifugae #windscorpion #arachnids 🕷️ #naturalist 🌿
We found this one hunting around at night.
#solifugae #windscorpion #arachnids 🕷️ #naturalist 🌿
Bathroom sink friend.
Wikipedia says:
"The name Solifugae derives from Latin, and means 'those that flee from the sun'.... Their common names include camel spider, wind scorpion, scorpion carrier, jerrymunglum, sun scorpion, and sun spider."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Crestone, Colorado USA
Wikipedia says:
"The name Solifugae derives from Latin, and means 'those that flee from the sun'.... Their common names include camel spider, wind scorpion, scorpion carrier, jerrymunglum, sun scorpion, and sun spider."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Crestone, Colorado USA
July 7, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Bathroom sink friend.
Wikipedia says:
"The name Solifugae derives from Latin, and means 'those that flee from the sun'.... Their common names include camel spider, wind scorpion, scorpion carrier, jerrymunglum, sun scorpion, and sun spider."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Crestone, Colorado USA
Wikipedia says:
"The name Solifugae derives from Latin, and means 'those that flee from the sun'.... Their common names include camel spider, wind scorpion, scorpion carrier, jerrymunglum, sun scorpion, and sun spider."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Crestone, Colorado USA
Fav bugs: pedes, vinegaroons, spiders, shrimp, solifugae, house centipedes, isopods, ok maybe just all 8+ legged creatures which isnt quite "bugs" but whatever🦂✨
July 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Fav bugs: pedes, vinegaroons, spiders, shrimp, solifugae, house centipedes, isopods, ok maybe just all 8+ legged creatures which isnt quite "bugs" but whatever🦂✨
those lower-stratosphere basal solifugae can be tricky
June 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
those lower-stratosphere basal solifugae can be tricky
Postcard from the field from our wandering Team Mariposa tour leader Michele Viganò, currently in the Sahara:
Ogni scarrafone è bello a mamma sua!
Not for the faint-hearted, there are some massive (figuratively and literally) arachnids here in the desert.
We love them - do you?
#Arachnid
Ogni scarrafone è bello a mamma sua!
Not for the faint-hearted, there are some massive (figuratively and literally) arachnids here in the desert.
We love them - do you?
#Arachnid
December 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Postcard from the field from our wandering Team Mariposa tour leader Michele Viganò, currently in the Sahara:
Ogni scarrafone è bello a mamma sua!
Not for the faint-hearted, there are some massive (figuratively and literally) arachnids here in the desert.
We love them - do you?
#Arachnid
Ogni scarrafone è bello a mamma sua!
Not for the faint-hearted, there are some massive (figuratively and literally) arachnids here in the desert.
We love them - do you?
#Arachnid
Camel spider/wind scorpion - not actually a spider or scorpion, but a predatory arachnid in the order Solifugae. They have no venom or silk glands. I found this tiny one, at most 1 cm. long, in the Mojave Desert on Tuesday. I thought this angle was kinda derpy-cute. 🐙🌿#BugSky
May 7, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Camel spider/wind scorpion - not actually a spider or scorpion, but a predatory arachnid in the order Solifugae. They have no venom or silk glands. I found this tiny one, at most 1 cm. long, in the Mojave Desert on Tuesday. I thought this angle was kinda derpy-cute. 🐙🌿#BugSky
🧵🐙🌿 Happy #Arachtober - here's an amazing arachnid (this one was in Montana) often called a camel spider or wind scorpion. It's not a spider or a scorpion - it's in its own order, Solifugae. They don't produce venom or silk. They are super interesting. Want a closer look? Sure you do. First, all--
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
🧵🐙🌿 Happy #Arachtober - here's an amazing arachnid (this one was in Montana) often called a camel spider or wind scorpion. It's not a spider or a scorpion - it's in its own order, Solifugae. They don't produce venom or silk. They are super interesting. Want a closer look? Sure you do. First, all--
SEND MORE BUGS
July 17, 2023 at 1:38 PM
SEND MORE BUGS
June 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
New ERGA-BGE #GenomeReport: The Iberian sun-spider 🕷️☀️
The first-ever reference genome for the entire order #Solifugae is here! It will help unravel the evolutionary history of arachnids.
🔗https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626363v1
@ebpgenome.bsky.social #Genomes for #Biodiversity
The first-ever reference genome for the entire order #Solifugae is here! It will help unravel the evolutionary history of arachnids.
🔗https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626363v1
@ebpgenome.bsky.social #Genomes for #Biodiversity
December 6, 2024 at 9:13 AM
New ERGA-BGE #GenomeReport: The Iberian sun-spider 🕷️☀️
The first-ever reference genome for the entire order #Solifugae is here! It will help unravel the evolutionary history of arachnids.
🔗https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626363v1
@ebpgenome.bsky.social #Genomes for #Biodiversity
The first-ever reference genome for the entire order #Solifugae is here! It will help unravel the evolutionary history of arachnids.
🔗https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626363v1
@ebpgenome.bsky.social #Genomes for #Biodiversity
📑Latest addition to the #openscience collection of the #European Reference #Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social) presents a the 1st #genome report for a sun spider (order Solifugae).
🔗 Find the report: doi.org/10.3897/arph...
🔍 Explore the collection to date: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
🔗 Find the report: doi.org/10.3897/arph...
🔍 Explore the collection to date: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
July 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📑Latest addition to the #openscience collection of the #European Reference #Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social) presents a the 1st #genome report for a sun spider (order Solifugae).
🔗 Find the report: doi.org/10.3897/arph...
🔍 Explore the collection to date: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
🔗 Find the report: doi.org/10.3897/arph...
🔍 Explore the collection to date: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
Diving into the world of the arachnids is not for the faint-hearted – even fans of all things eight-legged might just think twice about the critters belonging to Solifugae.
www.iflscience.com/fast-ferocio...
www.iflscience.com/fast-ferocio...
Fast, Ferocious, and Fearsome: Meet The Sun Spiders Of The Solifugae
You can run, but they can run after you.
www.iflscience.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Diving into the world of the arachnids is not for the faint-hearted – even fans of all things eight-legged might just think twice about the critters belonging to Solifugae.
www.iflscience.com/fast-ferocio...
www.iflscience.com/fast-ferocio...
An in person Solifugae or on the net?
December 31, 2024 at 5:33 AM
An in person Solifugae or on the net?
id love to see your take on solifugae
December 27, 2024 at 12:09 AM
id love to see your take on solifugae