Juan Jesús Gonzalez Ahumada's Image

There were lots of harvestmen about that night in the pine forest, so Juan seized the chance to capture the character of one of these spider-like arachnids. Turning the light on and off during a single long exposure, he recorded an impression of the animal’s navigation, its legs in constant motion.

Harvestmen typically hunt at night using their second pair of legs as antennae to guide them. Unlike spiders, they cannot produce venom. Instead, these sit-and-wait predators catch and eat a range of insects, snails and worms using their jaws and the modified spines on their legs.