I’m currently away on another of my mini-breaks, once again staying in Weymouth in Dorset. I usually try to get the blog posts for my time away all written and scheduled in advance of these breaks but I ran out of time before this trip, so I hope you’ll forgive me for recycling a recent post I made to my Bluesky account on 30 June:

I love that every day’s a school day. I didn’t know until today, when identifying this spider I spotted on my walk, that male crab spiders (Misumena vatia) aren’t like the pale colour-changing females. This little dude, missing a leg, was still intent on waving his remaining limbs around.

n.b. You can see examples of those pale colour-changing females in a couple of my previous posts: Y is for Yellow, from December last year, and Flower crab spiders, posted in April 2023.