The remaining prey groups including "other beetles" (8.1%), butterflies and moths (5.9%), orthopterans (4.9%), spiders and
harvestmen (2.3%) are by far less abundant in the diet of hoopoe nestlings.
Faunistic similarity and historic biogeography of the
harvestmen of southern and southeastern Atlantic rain forest of Brazil.
In this habitat, we found so many different invertebrates such as woodlice, spiders,
harvestmen and even caterpillars.
The effects of varied grazing management on epigeal spiders,
harvestmen and pseudoscorpions of Nardus stricta grassland in upland Scotland.
spiders,
harvestmen, or Photuris females; Lewis et al.
Side-effect of integrated pest management and conventional spraying on the composition of epigeic spiders and
harvestmen in an apple orchard (Araneae, Opiliones).
"Although they have eight legs,
harvestmen are not spiders; they are more closely related to another arachnid, the scorpion," said author Dr Russell Garwood, a palaeontologist in the University of Manchester's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.
For each order--spiders, scorpions,
harvestmen, and so on--they summarize typical characteristics to help identify newly discovered fossils.
Autumn is the prime time for a very common and numerous, but little known, group of spider-like animals called
harvestmen.
Over this area, there have been ecological or biogeographical studies that have included arachnids such as scorpions (Shelley and Sissom, 1995), solifugids (Muma, 1979; Brookhart and Brantley, 2000),
harvestmen (Mackay et al., 1992), and mites (Cepeda-Pizarro and Whitford, 1989), but only a few have focused on spiders (Muma, 1975; Gertsch and Riechert, 1976; Broussard and Horner, 2006; Lightfoot et al., 2008).