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| Fletcher Wildlife Garden | profile | all galleries >> Spiders and Harvestmen (Arachnida) of the FWG >> Crab Spiders (Thomisidae) | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
The best known crab spiders are the goldenrod crab spiders, the ones that can turn from white to yellow and back, depending on the plant they are sitting on. The transformation is not immediate, for it takes quite some time to achieve, but it is remarkable nonetheless. They are known for sitting motionless on flowers, nearly invisible, waiting for some hapless insect to land.
 Possibly Mecaphesa sp. |
 Crab spider (Xysticus) |
 Crab spider (Mecaphesa) |
 Male crab spider, possibly Bassaniana sp.) |
 Northern crab spider (Mecaphesa sp.) |
 Northern crab spider (Mecaphesa sp.) |
 Crab spider, male (Misumena vatia) |
 Crab spiders, male and female (Misumena vatia) |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female with bee |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female |
 Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia), female |
 Crab spider (Misumena vatia) on joe-pye-weed |
 Female Goldenrod Crab spider (Misumena vatia) |
 Ground crab spider (Xysticus sp. ) |
 Ground crab spider (Xysticus sp. ), female |
 Transverse-banded crab spider (Xysticus transversatus) |
 Ground crab spider (Xysticus) |
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| Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro) | 22-Feb-2013 18:24 | |
| Ali Majdfar | 30-Jan-2013 04:21 | |
| Ashley Hockenberry | 26-Jan-2013 03:36 | |