Small Beings Feel the pulse of arthropod life: Captivating visuals, emotional narratives, and insights that foster a commitment to safeguarding biological diversity.
Arthropods? What’s that?
Imagine throwing a party where over 80% of all guests belong to the same family – that’s exactly the situation in the animal kingdom, where arthropods dominate the scene. This incredibly successful clan includes everything with more than four legs that struts around in a fancy chitin armor: insects, spiders, crustaceans, and millipedes. Their recipe for success: an ingenious modular system of moveable joints and an exoskeleton that’s regularly traded in for a larger size.
With over a million known species and an estimated 10 million trillion individuals worldwide, they’ve conquered practically every habitat, from the Mariana Trench to your kitchen. While we humans are still debating whether working from home actually works, arthropods long ago perfected the division of labor: some pollinate, others clean up, still others aerate the soil or keep mosquito populations in check. So it’s high time we finally give these often-overlooked neighbors the respect they deserve – even if some of them have eight eyes and occasionally give us Homo sapiens a good scare.
Tales
Here you find personal stories and articles about and from the realm of small beings, told by… the small beings themselves. We’re giving them a voice – all the fireflies, bees, beetles, spiders, and many more. New stories appear regularly, so it’s worth checking back!
The paradox of security
A tomcat and a cat meet. And a spider secretly listens in.… Full post
The Arthropods' Daily
The daily Arthropod Courier brings you a new picture of a little being every day. Click here for the archive ofpreviously published issues.
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Furrow Bees
The genus Halictus is a large assemblage of bee species in the family Halictidae. The genus is divided into 15 subgenera, some of dubious monophyly, containing over 200 species, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere (a few species occur in South America, Asia and Africa). Most species are black or dark brown, sometimes metallic greenish-tinted, with apical whitish abdominal bands on the terga (the related genus Lasioglossum, which is otherwise often similar in appearance, has the abdominal...
Our book is here!Kleine Wesen – Große Verantwortung
Macro photography and stories revealing the hidden beauty of tiny creatures – featuring Franz the acorn weevil who wakes up human. Kafka reversed.
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Catalog of Sightings
The useful compendium of all our sightings. Here you will find the little beings of this website, combined with valuable information.
