#Arachtober 5: the last order of arachnids I have found, pseudoscorpions! They look kind of like scorpions without tails; they are found basically everywhere on earth but Antarctica, but they are absolutely tiny and live in places like under tree bark, under rocks and logs, in leaf litter, etc., so you will rarely see them unless you're looking for them. Sometimes they can be found clinging to the legs of larger flying insects with their little claws, or indoors eating booklice and other tiny household insects.

The ones in my garden are so small you might take them for mesostigmatid mites at first glance. This one has captured a soil-dwelling mite of some kind.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99203146

#ArthroBeauty #arachnids #pseudoscorpions #Pseudoscorpiones #Cthoniidae