I saw my first C. mutabilis of the year today! Unfortunately, I seem to have severely injured it by accident. It was dangerously close to flying into plastic and then dying of plastic entanglement, so I grabbed it and threw it away. For some reason it did not fly when thrown, and upon landing several of its tarsi had seemingly lost the ability to flex/bend. I was definitely not expecting that to happen, as healthy specimens do not generally refuse flight when thrown.
At least I compensated it with free brunch afterwards? It still seemed possibly moribund though. Oh dear.
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