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Crab Spider
Family Thomisidae
19.1943, 72.9702
Field Notes
Description:
Thomisidae do not build webs to trap prey, though all of them produce silk for drop lines and sundry reproductive purposes; some are wandering hunters and the most widely known are ambush predators. Some species sit on or beside flowers or fruit, where they grab visiting insects. Individuals of some species, are able to change colour over a period of some days, to match the flower on which they are sitting. Some species frequent promising positions among leaves or bark, where they await prey, and some of them will sit in the open.
Habitat:
Seen at an open forest near a river.
Notes:
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