After two weeks of illness, storms, February rainfall now approaching three times the monthly average figure and days and days of endless R, I was determined to get out and do some fieldwork today. Determined. Those 40mph winds weren't going to stop me! When I woke the sun was shining and I sprang out of bed to charge the eVac battery. Dressed, breakfast ... then it rained, hard and horizontally. It's only a shower! It's all clear behind, I'll give it half an hour then head out. After half an hour, it rained again. And again. After two hours I gave up and went to get changed. As I walked into the bathroom I saw a tiny orange spider on the wall. Although I've never seen Oonops before, from the cluster of eyes and the way it ran, stopped, and ran again, I knew what it was.

However, I didn't know which of the two UK species it was. Under the microscope I could count 5 ventral spines on tibia I, meaning this was Oonops domesticus, which the BAS web page calls the "Pink Prowler" (c.f. Oonops pulcher, 4 spines on tibia I).