Here’s a quick sequel to yesterday’s post with another, more detailed view of this cool little harvestman. In this image you can more clearly see the little turret atop its body that houses its pair of tiny eyes. I often see harvestmen climbing around on flowers and grasses 
with their amazingly-long and spindly legs and wonder how they can manage to do it with such agility, considering the location and size of their eyes. Surely one of nature’s miracles.
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krikitarts 
The colour of the leaves are so deep and rich, and the harvesman appears to have settled in amongst them nicely. Lovely photo. As it so happens I have been photographing a harvestman here today.
What a happy coincidence; I’m looking forward to yours as well.
Quite amazing indeed. Very nice!
I think some of the Star Wars vehicles may have these to thank for their inspiration.
Yes, enlarging this, I really see what you mean by the eyes being in a little turret – what an unusual creature! :)
If you’d like to see some that are way more unusual, check out some that live here in NZ (you won’t believe these!): https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/47367-Opiliones/browse_photos
What incredible creatures >>> I have to say that words coming immediately to mind on seeing these pics are (wait for it!!!) horrifying, alien and bizarre!!! I would not have believed in these if I hadn’t seen their portraits! :)
It’s so true–I have my daughter Squiddy to thank for looking further into these. I hope I will be able to observe a few of them in my travels here. I thought you’d be intrigued, and I’m happy to hear your reaction. There is so much to learn about this incredible world of ours!
Glad to see this closer look. The tendency to capture the entire creature in the image renders the details of the body so small. I am always amazed that something so small as this Harvestman has all the necessary stuff to function as larger critters do. Nature is amazing.
There really is no limit to the amazingness. We see jumping spiders the size of BBs and there are mites that parasitize them. It’s so much like the building blocks of molecules, atoms, protons and electrons, and then it gets down to the strange, and more. It makes one wonder exactly where we fit in the grand scheme of things. We’ll probably not know until we move on to the next level and (hopefully) find out. Buddhism becomes attractive.