http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/pseudoscorpions.php

Pictured here crawling along my shorts. Apparently they’ll attach themselves to flys and other flying insects to grab a ride off to other places.

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I’m in Wellington, but they’re apparently everywhere - just we tend not to notice them since they’re pretty small and like live under leaves and stuff

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I made the mistake of looking up whether these live in the UK too, to find there are 27 species of them here. And now my skin won’t stop crawling…😩

(I know they are very small, harmless to humans, and mostly live outside, but arachnophobia doesn’t discriminate lol)

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If you think that’s scary, don’t look up how many species of spiders there are 😅

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But I already know that… This is a new thing I was hoping I could avoid thinking about because they didn’t exist locally, only they do, a lot…

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