Articles by Richard Gallon
Species Focus - Flower crab spider (Misumena vatia)
01 Jul 2021
We’ve recently been getting interesting records of two unusual garden spiders coming in to Cofnod. Misumena vatia is a large crab spider which sits on flowers and captures bees and butterflies. If the female spider is sitting on a white flower her colour remains white, however she can change to bright yellow if she moves on to a yellow flower!. A large white flower crab spider (female). A large ye...
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