A tasty, but well-defended, lunch Rodrigo H. Willemart
In a battle worthy of gore and grime fetishists, slimy flatworms attack harvestman arachnids with gobs of mucus. But the arachnids sometimes fight back by chopping the worms in half with armoured leg spikes.
The armoured harvestman () is an eight-legged arachnid, distantly related to spiders. are sometimes known as “daddy longlegs”, although confusingly so are .
The armoured harvestman has a lot of problems in life. Its predators include birds, toads, lizards, marsupials and even insects such assassin bugs.
As a result, it has evolved…
