Categories » Spiders » Crab Spiders

Jump to: ELEGANT CRAB SPIDER | GOLDENROD CRAB SPIDER | NORTHERN CRAB SPIDER

ELEGANT CRAB SPIDER

I find the Goldenrod Crab Spider to be more elegant, but hey, I didn't name this one.

Perhaps it has an elegant dining manner?

Still a cute face, badd head and all

Really, I woudl call it the need a shower and scrubbing crab spider.

Back to top

GOLDENROD CRAB SPIDER

A confession, I got so close to this defensive spider, it dropped its meal. But I found it, presented, and it was promptly accepted.

They come in this cool yellow color and white, depending on the plant for camouflage, then pounce, ambush!

See the fly propped up to the stem behind the spider?

At first glance, what spider? Just a fly doing a handstand?

Nope, that would be a crab spider with a death grip around its neck, wonderful example of camouflage.

This one has been in the sun too long, looking rather pale.

Ok, honestly, don't remember the context of this photo, forgive me...

This was upstate on a cloudy day, giving this crab spider a ghostly pallor.

Spider one, fly none.

Picking its way delicately across an aster.

Is that an egg sac that spider is on? No wonder she is so hungry.

It's like the fly is wearing a big fat spider hat.

Back to top

NORTHERN CRAB SPIDER

The plainer Janes of the crab spider world, cute faces though

Small one posing in some tansy.

Back to top

Home  |   About   |   Copyright   |   Contact