Harvestmen (Opiliones)

Harvestmen are Arachnids, but they differ from spiders in having the abdomen and the cephalothorax fused together as one. The legs are usually long in relation to their body and they only have two eyes compared to spiders, many of which have eight eyes. There are 25 species of harvestmen in the UK, several of which live in the Wyre Forest.

Published 20th August 2011 at 6:41 pm