Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Macro close-up of a juvenile huntsman spider (Heteropoda boiei), a young tropical sparassid spider, photographed in controlled ...

Brazil's Butantan Institute identified a new mite larvae, Araneothrombium brasiliensis, feeding on a spider in a museum ...

Juvenile Huntsman spiders are targeted by mites rather than adults because they are smaller and more vulnerable. The mite, Araneothrombium brasiliensis, consumes lymphatic fluid from its host.