Fashion Update - _TNY_1213

Here's a juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) on the leaf of the blackberry next to the old moult which it has changed out of.

 

Spiders, like all invertebrates have a hard exoskeleton which doesn't grow so instead, when the time comes, the old one bursts open and they leavi it dressed in the new - soft and pliable - skin which soon hardens. Getting out of it for a spider must be a little like removing one glove without using the other hand.

Done