Surprise, surprise...!
I was about to step into my shower, but someone was already there. It was pretty big as such things go, it had eight legs, and it was not a spider. It was... weird! I captured it in a large plastic cup, put a lid on it, and then went online to discover the identity of this peculiar thing. It is, in fact, a 'sun spider' which is a common name for an arachnid that is its own kind of thing. Scientifically speaking, it's a solpugid. They like dry parts of the world, and maybe the rains we've been... Sign in to see full entry.