Mommy mallard complained about the injustice of my two recent treatments of merganser families (1, 2). Why would I have featured those (clearly lesser) beings, while neglecting her own worthies? Ok, here is mommy mallard and her eight progeny.
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Hi,Alistair,
What is that delightfully yuccy fellow on top?
Peter
Peter, every time the page loads, a new header image is chosen at random. So, unless you give me a description, I have no way of knowing what appeared at the top of the page you were viewing.
Interesting!
So you don’t know what we are seeing!
It was a guccy cockroach -like creature,on a yellow Tansy head.
Translucent with what appeared to be large forelegs streched out towards the observer,and tiny ones for standing on the flower.
Great pic,but of what?
Peter
Peter and I solved the mystery: the header he was looking at was a closeup of a female crab spider (Misumena vatia) sitting on a daisy. In the picture, it looks as if it is challenging the photographer—and it was. This is the picture:
