Woodingdean 23 April 2019: I found a beautiful yellow crab spider in the garden. Crab spiders don’t make webs – they are hunters. I think this one was a bit confused as it was trying to conceal itself on a pink peony – It might have been more successful on the yellow peonies on the other side of the garden.
After dark I had to rush out to rescue my cat from what sounded like a confrontation with another cat, and was confronted not with a strange cat but with a very large hedgehog. This is wonderful news as I haven’t seen a hedgehog here for years.
Picture: Crab spider (Misumena vatia) on Paeonia cambessedesii