arachnid

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The bright blue and orange arachnid—a pea-size animal native to China and Japan—crawls like an ant, according to a new study.

From Science Magazine

Without a deep freeze, these arachnids and various insect pests don’t die off en masse, Pell says.

From Scientific American

Despite noble false widow spiders’ taste for large prey, Dunbar doubts the arachnids will ever pose a serious threat to vertebrates such as pygmy shrews.

From Scientific American

But throughout the South, the bulbous arachnids with red hourglasses on their bellies are engaged in a lethal competition with the brown widow, a relative from abroad — and they’re losing.

From New York Times

But just as obviously, the notably petite Ms. Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids.

From New York Times