Photos

: Juvenile of the harvestman Iporangaia pustulosa

: Iporangaia pustulosa adult molting

: Iporangaia pustulosa female walking through the vegetation

: Iporangaia pustulosa caring male with his egg-clutch

: Iporangaia pustulosa multiple brood containing eggs from different reproductive events (evident by the different color of the eggs)

: Iporangaia pustulosa caring male with hist multiple brood. Note the mucus coat covering the eggs and the presence of recently ecloded nymphs

: Iporangaia pustulosa nymph having its very first meal, feeding on its egg shell

: Abandoned Iporangaia pustulosa clutch infected by fungus

: Iporangaia pustulosa eggs attacked by a spider

: Iporangaia pustulosa adult cannibalizing unattended eggs

: An adult of the harvestman Serracutisoma proximum also feeding on unattended eggs of Iporangaia pustulosa

: A male of the harvestman Longiperna concolor also feeding on unattended eggs of Iporangaia pustulosa

: Ants attacking eggs of Iporangaia pustulosa

: Ant carrying an egg of Iporangaia pustulosa

: Iporangaia pustulosa female feeding on a carcass of insect

: Vagrant non-caring male captured by an ambush sit-and-wait spider while walking through the vegetation

: Iporangaia pustulosa adult attacked by a parasitoid fly

: Iporangaia pustulosa female (at the left) laying eggs into a multiple brood a caring male (at the right) was guarding

: Zygopachylus albomarginis territorial male inside the mud nest he has built

: Using a night-shot mode, we can see some eggs (in black) at the floor of the nest of a Zygopachylus albomarginis male

: A piece of log infested by fungus, except inside the nest of a Zygopachylus albomarginis male, which actively clean the nest and the eggs, removing the fungal hyphae

: Zygopachylus albomarginis female (outside the nest) approaching a territorial male (inside the nest and marked with yellow ink)