A very ex-harvestman, I think. The eye periscope turret piece (tubercle) is in the upper centre of the head. In life, eight legged and closely related to spiders.
A very ex-harvestman, I think. The eye periscope turret piece (tubercle) is in the upper centre of the head. In life, eight legged and closely related to spiders.
That has to be a male of this species given those horns on the front. Very cool and not one I've seen before.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My nature table offering this week is this fossil I found in the river on the weekend. It's some sort of coral which is always odd to find when you're this far above sea level. There's a lot of mining soil dumped around here though so it could have come from deep below the ground or from a surface quarry. 488 to 251 million years old anyway.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Seed pods of perennial sweet peas. I collect the seeds and keep the pods, which twist as they dry out. They are great to make kinds of bunting, xmas decos, presents, mobiles. Fun to add gold leaf. They last forever. If you hang them over a wood stove they spin in the heat, like dancers.
I found this marble sized object on the beach last weekend. It looked like a quartz pebble but it was with a bunch of other flotsam on the sandy area where there are no pebbles. It feels like stone and sounds like stone or ceramic when tapped against a rock but it's light enough to float and rattled when I shook it. After a bit of reasearch I've found out it's known as a Nickernut and is a tropical seed that has probably floated across from the Caribbean.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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