Harvestmen are often scavengers, like this one that came to eat from moth bait painted on the trees. They have eight long, skinny legs and rounded bodies. They crawl all over trees and logs, finding ...

Let’s start with what harvestmen are not. They are not men, nor do they harvest; they probably get their name from the time of year they’re commonly spotted, in late summer or early fall. Though eight ...

Daddy longlegs are their own order. Nothing to be scared of. Photo courtesy Ryan Poplin/Flickr/Creative Commons Earlier this month, Vine user Pablo Barroeta of Cholula, Mexico, posted a video showing ...

According to the calendar, the midpoint between the summer solstice in June and the autumnal equinox in September is the first week of August. We are now in midsummer. The sunrises are getting later ...

In the family of arachnids, harvestmen have always played Jan Brady to spiders' Marcia, with their charismatic array of predatory talents and perfectly straight blonde hair (kidding about that second ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. If critters with lots of legs make ...

Microcina leei may very well be the most obscure creature I’ve ever written about. It stumped Google Image; the accompanying photograph is of a very distant relative. It’s only a millimeter long and ...

Duke biology graduate student Brendan Lam studies the vision of harvestmen, a type of arachnid that looks like a spider.

Mating behaviour is highly diverse in animals both among and within species. We examine variation in mating behaviour in leiobunine harvestmen, which show high diversity in genitalic traits that are ...

Harvestmen, the third most-diverse arachnid order, are an ancient group found on all continental landmasses, except Antarctica. However, a terrestrial mode of life and leathery, poorly mineralized ...