Introducing The Crab Spider ... master of disguise.
Anybody wanna hug?
This one's a male:
This one's a female:
What's interesting about these spiders is they can change their colour to match the flower that they are on. It takes them 7 days to emit the yellow pigment into their bodies, but only one day to remove it and return to white.
Here's one with the yellow pigment:
Sure, practice makes perfect but, unless you learn from your mistakes, you are only perfecting your ability to fail.
Great photos. We have those here I just did not know what they were. The strange thing is I have not seen one this year, and I spend a lot of time crawling through the grass looing for small flowers and bugs. I am glad the neighbor's son is a photographer so she dose not think anything of my odd behavior.
fotozone wrote: Great photos. We have those here I just did not know what they were. The strange thing is I have not seen one this year, and I spend a lot of time crawling through the grass looing for small flowers and bugs. I am glad the neighbor's son is a photographer so she dose not think anything of my odd behavior.
I've only seen one this year (June 30). I'm not sure what species it is though ... I haven't researched it yet. It had caught a bee on a Marsh Mallow down by the river (yes, a Marsh Mallow is an actual flower).
Sure, practice makes perfect but, unless you learn from your mistakes, you are only perfecting your ability to fail.
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