Invertebrate / Arachnid / Spiders, scorpions and mites

Nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis showing mother carrying egg sac

Harvestman Opiliones species showing distinctive rounded undivided body and spindly legs

Wolf spider Lycosa

Animals shown are spider, snail, centipede, worm, woodlouse, pseudoscorpion, mite, slug, ground beetle, earwig, and spider

Flik flak spider Cabrennus rechenbergi facing us. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Flik flak spider cartwheel diagram,  showing Cabrennus rechenbergi and its unusual movement. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Web stabilimentum showing cruciate type, in the web of the orb spider Silver agriope Agriope argentata. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Line drawing of a typical member of the scorpion family

Line drawing of a typical member of the spider family

Pen and ink illustration with brown watercolour top wash of a representative of the spider family

Red spider mite Tetranychus urticae cut to white pen and ink with colour wash sketch, plant behind with typical webbing and spider mite damage