Harvestmen - Opiliones

    Harvestmen are not Spiders.
    They belong to the Arachnid order Opiliones.
    Unlike Spiders, Harvestmen's bodies are fused
    into one. They will feed on carrion and rotten
    vegetable matter which Spiders do not.
    I am using the Field Studies Council Guide to
    Harvestman of the British Isles to identify these
    formidable Arachnids.

    Extra Mural Cemetery
    Brighton
    02.11.2011

    Leiobunum rotundum
    Huge colony on a roof of a hide next to a pond.
    Stanmer Park
    08.07.2011

    Friston Forest
    East Sussex
    12.07.2011

    Leiobunum blackwalli (?)

    Mitopus morio (Female)
    Old Lodge Nature Reserve
    Ashdown Forest, East Sussex
    30.06.2011

    Female Mitopus morio
    Friston Forest
    Near Jevington, East Sussex
    10.06.2011

    Harvestman sporting a rather bulbous Red Mite Larvae - they dig their
    mouthparts into the Harvestman and suck the body fluids.
    Stanmer Park, Brighton
    25.07.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    07/11/2010

    Odiellus spinosus ?
    Female
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    25/09/2010

    Odiellus spinosus ?
    Female
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    20/10/2010

    Odiellus spinosus ?
    Female
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    21/10/2010

 

    Odiellus spinosus ?

    Female and Male

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    12/10/2010

    Opilio canestrinii ? Female
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    15/08/2010

    Opilio saxatilis ? Male
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    17/10/2010

    Opilio saxatilis ? Female
    Back Garden, Brighton
    21/10/2010

    Red Mites glue themselves to Harvestmen and suck out the body fluids.

    Phalangium opilio ? Male
    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery
    20/10/2010