Will you be writing a species discovery paper soon? :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/19/2011 11:37 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 7/18/2011 1:32 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>> That's a really great portait of what looks like a "crab spider". Also known
>> in some locales as a "flower spider". She doesn't know about the glads,
>> she's just hoping she's lucky. See her "cousin" at the bottom of this page:
>>
>> http://winterwoman.net/2008/06/19/crab-spiders/
>
> Thanks for the link. I followed on to a couple of others. It's certainly a
> crab spider, which I see covers a lot of
> ground in families and species. I've photographed others, but this color was
> new and startling to me. Others have been
> very pale, even translucent.
>
> As I so often find, the info is at least slightly at odds with what I observe
> and shoot.
>
> "Some of the flower spiders are able to change their color over several days,
> typically between white and yellow,
> depending on the color of the flower on which they are resting." OK, it's on
> a green leaf, but we may assume it has
> recently been on on of the several yellow flowers nearby.
>
> Or maybe it really knows what color the glad will be? "Many crab spider
> species, especially in the family Thomisidae,
> have the same bright colors as the flowers on which they sit."
>
> The descriptions say they are free roaming hunters and "They do not wrap
> their prey in silk after biting, but instead
> remain with the immobilized prey until they have sucked it dry. " So what the
> heck is this that my local spider has
> built?<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Home/Garden_Summer_2011&image=_MG_2669croof70.jpg>
>
> It has stayed in the same place for three days that I know of, and built a
> structure of some sort. Doesn't appear to be
> anything inside. Could be a shelter from larger predators, such as birds, but
> that doesn't fit the descriptions. Doesn't
> look like the egg sack pics, and is in the wrong place at the wrong time for
> overwintering, although it says some
> species have several generations per year.
>
> Puzzlin' Arachnids Moose
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