When a male peacock spider is ready to find a mate, he really puts on a show. He has tiny, overlapping scales on his abdomen that diffract and break light into many vibrant colors, producing a ...

The patterns on the abdomen to me just look so much like Starry Night by van Gogh, hence the name constellatus which means starry in Latin. "A few of the spiders in this paper were named after the ...

Ticks have 2 body regions: an unsegmented abdomen and a cephalothorax. Their body is oval and minute, and they have 8 legs but no antennae. Spiders are predatory arthropods of insects. Unlike the ...

A large spider with a brown cephalothorax (the fused head and thorax) and a tan-coloured abdomen that often has a characteristic ‘herring bone’ pattern. Six species of this group are commonly found in ...

In the dark of night, they call to potential mates using the glowing chemical lamp in their abdomen. In one species ... were studying a species of garden spider found in China that spins its ...