#harvestman

"Everything is a pair of scissors, and pale palps"

Spotted on the kitchen windowsill, to my great delight.

First described in 1902 by Reginald Innes Pocock (1863 –1947) a British zoologist and pioneering morphologist.

A large and ridiculous harvestman, in a genus with 9 known species, all endemic to New Zealand. This one is a male, as you can tell from the hugely enlarged chelicerae that they use to intimidate rival males, and any humans that don't known harvestmen are completely harmless.

A perfect four.

Hydrangeas get a lot of press for their colour-changing pink-blue flowers but I enjoyed counting petals on this solid pink one. Above: five.

Threes, fours, and fives.

3.5, with five of the tiny petals in the centre.