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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Harvestmen (Opiliones) » Eupnoi » Phalangioidea » Sclerosomatidae » Leiobunum » calcar species group (Leiobunum calcar species group) » Leiobunum nigropalpi
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Harvestman eating fly - Leiobunum nigropalpi
Copyright © 2015 Lynn Murphy

Harvestman eating fly - Leiobunum nigropalpi
DNR Sturgeon River Sloughs, Baraga County, Michigan, USA
July 12, 2015
This Harvestman was either eating a fly it had caught or scavanged a fly it had found. Do they eat live prey? It was about 3:30 p.m.
and was on a Thimbleberry leaf. The habitat was an old railroad grade running through a second growth forest and a pond nearby in a field.
The location is in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan near Lake Superior.
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Contributed by Lynn Murphy on 27 August, 2015 - 10:45am
Last updated 22 September, 2015 - 9:16pm

Moved
Moved from Harvestmen.
… v belov, 22 September, 2015 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

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Leiobunum nigropalpi, probably female. Harvestmen are opportunists. They will grab live prey if they can handle it, but dead is OK too.
… Jeffrey W. Shultz, 28 August, 2015 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Jeffrey. Lynn
Thanks Jeffrey. Lynn
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