The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House

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*Pseudoscorpions are not actually scorpions, but a completely different type of arachnid with little claws, but no stinging tail. These tiny guys eat dust mites and other household pests while being some of nature’s most bizarre hitchhikers.

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Sources:
https://www.gbif.org/species/165239091
https://extension.psu.edu/pseudoscorpions

Bug o’the Week – Pseudoscorpion

Hitchhiking Pseudoscorpions (Phoresy)


https://www.americanarachnology.org/about-arachnids/arachnid-orders/pseudoscorpiones/
https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/20/215/2017/
https://www.biologyonline.https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/20/215/2017/com/dictionary/pedipalp

Pseudoscorpion


https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/13/1/25

Pseudoscorpions


https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/running-ponies/how-book-scorpions-tend-to-your-dusty-tomes/
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/27033577
https://mbimph.com/index.php/UPJOZ/article/view/4792
https://bioone.org/journals/arachnologische-mitteilungen/volume-66/issue-1/aramit6605/Hitching-a-ride-on-a-scorpion–the-first-record/10.30963/aramit6605.full
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3705790
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-sexy-saga-of-the-harlequin-beetle-and-the-pseudoscorpion/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00880.x

Wonderful Creatures: meet the beetle-riding arachnid


https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/10/5/207
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0041010119300509
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