Butt shot of a little Crab Spider (Thomisidae) on California Buckwheat
This is a butt shot of another little Crab Spider (Thomisidae) on fading flowers of California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum, Polygonaceae). If you use the individual flowers of the buckwheat as your ruler, you can see this this spider is quite a bit larger than this other crab spider I posted a couple of days ago. (The buckwheat flowers are about 1/8 inch across. It's a small world!) The spider might be genus Mecaphesa again. If you look close, you can see that it has a safety line. They seem to be our most common spiders right now. HBBBT and Arachtober 13! (San Marcos Pass, 12 October 2016)
We didn't have marine layer fog this morning, but I had an appointment in town. By the time I got home, there were clouds and breeze for the rest of the day. We do have a chance of rain over the weekend, up to 40% by Sunday night. I'm not holding by breath, but we do need it. We had a bit of rain in April and May, 1/10 inch or so, but this might be our first significant rain since April. *Sigh* I guess there's a 60% chance it will miss us.
Butt shot of a little Crab Spider (Thomisidae) on California Buckwheat
This is a butt shot of another little Crab Spider (Thomisidae) on fading flowers of California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum, Polygonaceae). If you use the individual flowers of the buckwheat as your ruler, you can see this this spider is quite a bit larger than this other crab spider I posted a couple of days ago. (The buckwheat flowers are about 1/8 inch across. It's a small world!) The spider might be genus Mecaphesa again. If you look close, you can see that it has a safety line. They seem to be our most common spiders right now. HBBBT and Arachtober 13! (San Marcos Pass, 12 October 2016)
We didn't have marine layer fog this morning, but I had an appointment in town. By the time I got home, there were clouds and breeze for the rest of the day. We do have a chance of rain over the weekend, up to 40% by Sunday night. I'm not holding by breath, but we do need it. We had a bit of rain in April and May, 1/10 inch or so, but this might be our first significant rain since April. *Sigh* I guess there's a 60% chance it will miss us.