CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

It's a sign of the high summer when harvestmen appear in our garden. Initially I though this was Leiobunum rotundum , until Richard Bur...

This extraordinary harvestman, with forked pedipalps, is Dicranopalpus ramosus.  It is currently liv...

A lot of exotic animals tend to reach our shores these days and when they do they often make lurid newspaper headlines, with scare stories a...

Today's Guardian Country Diary is about encounters with harvestmen while clearing an overgrown garden. Although they're of...

The raspberry bushes in our garden seem to be a favourite haunt of harvestman, including this one which I think is a male  Leiobunum rotund...

This year we've had record numbers of small white Pieris rapae butterflies in the garden. At one point I counted twelve feedin...

Harvestman spiders like this Mitopus morio turn up quite frequently in our garden at this time of year and quite a few of them carry t...

It isn't until you watch a harvestman walking aross a rough surface - like this pebbledashed wall of a house - that you realise how p...

Harvestmen are animals that could have stepped straight out of a science fiction story. That globular body, slung between unfeasibly lon...