I know, I’m attributing gender to an amphibian, long before adulthood even, but it made the title work better.
I’ve got more arthropods to feature, but we’re taking a short break to show off another find. It should have been a few days ago, because it would have been more distinct then, but no, I was being lazy…
The backyard pond went very dormant for a while,
I’m fairly certain this is a slender crab spider (Tibellus maritimus) being as subtle as a teenage girl on her first beach trip after reaching puberty. Don’t ask me why this is considered a crab spider, since I would expect them to look, you know, crabby, but that’s entomology for you.
By the way, the depth-of-field is so short because I was actually shooting at night by the light