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Flower Spiders (Crab)
Misumena
44.1217, -72.5415
Field Notes
Description:
The colors of both the Flower Spider and Vetch are strikingly beautiful. The Flower Spider sits on flowers and can change color slowly. This beautiful one kept on going around the Vetch flower to hide.
Habitat:
Flowers. Pastures and fields.
Notes:
Their vision for movement is good. Their jaws are small, and after prey is bitten, it is held above the spider and sucked dry. Those that sit on flowers have a toxin potent to bees flies, and other insects much larger than themselves. They do not use silk to capture prey, but in courtship. The male may wrap his mate loosely in silk. Females guard the egg sac, but die before the eggs hatch.
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