He looks yellow, I bet he was sitting on the yellow part of the flowers and
had moved to the purple if he saw you coming. The one I saw was white with
pink spots and sitting in a white flower with pink spots. When I got close
to him, he jumped to a nearby red flower and hung under it to hide.
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On 8/16/10 5:48 PM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/16/2010 11:11 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Crab Spiders are really cool. They sit inside flowers and most of them can
>> actually change color and sometimes even pattern to match the look of the
>> flower upon which it is sitting at the moment. Instead of catching bugs in a
>> sticky web, the Crab Spider sits in the flower and waits for an insect to
>> visit the flower. Bees and lots of other bugs like to come to flowers for
>> nectar or pollen, and when one comes in, the spider, hidden by his new color,
>> attacks!
>
> Hmmm. That may answer my mild curiosity when I shot this one in our garden in
> '03. If so, it must be in relocation mode,
> as it's not color adapted to its location.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=IATMS&image=067_
> 33ia80.jpg>
>
> OMPC, Portra 160NC, Kiron 105/2.8 Macro, f32, ~1/8 sec.
>
> Moose
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