Living Chelicerates appreciation thread

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It would surely be fitting more for Australia…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Imagine if New Zealand was most desert, like Australia. The crazy things that could evolve in that sort of place.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It would probably need to be a fair bit more north for such conditions to be capable of occurring on these isles…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Or a lot of mountains near the coast to have rain shadows.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Well, the southern island of NZ already has that and yet a large rain shadow has not developed for deserts to occur there.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Dolomedes dondalei - The one of the few fishing spiders that also fishes for small fish (located in New Zealand).

By Shaun Lee - Photo 99874901, (c) Shaun Lee, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Shaun Lee · iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0, File:Dolomedes dondalei 99874901.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I am fairly sure there are certain more “advanced” spiders that bring bubbles to live underwater for some time…

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Did you mean this?

Diving bell spider

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Yes, this very exact spider.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

The Wheel spider (Carparachne aureoflava ) has a unique behavior of flipping onto its side and cartwheeling down sand dunes to escape parasitic wasps.

By Daniel S. Katz - Photo 110456212, (c) Daniel S. Katz, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Daniel S. Katz · iNaturalist, CC BY 4.0, File:Carparachne aureoflava 110456212.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I wonder if that’s the closest terran life got to wheel-like organisms…