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Arachnids
A common sight in British gardens, a Wolf spider (Pardosa sp.).
Arachnids have two regions to the body. The front (or anterior) part is called the prosoma. The rear (posterior) part is called the opisthosoma. There are four pairs of walking legs on the prosoma in adult arachnids (but larval mites only have three pairs).
Arachnids generally feed by sucking fluids from the bodies of other organisms. Hence they tend to be predatory or parasitic, though there are exceptions. The group includes:
- spiders
- ticks
- mites
- scorpions
- pseudoscorpions
- kingcrabs
General structure of an arachnid
Related links: Arachnids (Class Arachnida)
- British Arachnological Society
http://www.britishspiders.org.uk - British Tarantula Society
http://www.thebts.co.uk/ - Pseudoscorpions
The Pseudoscorpions page on WikiPedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscorpion - Tarantula caresheet
AES caresheet for tarantulas
http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/caresheets/tarantula.html - The Arachnid page at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid - The Spider Myths site
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/
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