Same here!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Crab Spider
>I hadn't seen one of these guys ever (that I was aware of) so I wondered
> about distribution. Unfortunately, Wiki says there are 170 genera and
> more than 2,000 species distributed pretty much everywhere in the world
> except the arctic regions. I think I won't bother trying to ID this
> one. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Crab Spiders are really cool. They sit inside flowers and most of them
>> can
>> actually change color and sometimes even pattern to match the look of the
>> flower upon which it is sitting at the moment. Instead of catching bugs
>> in a
>> sticky web, the Crab Spider sits in the flower and waits for an insect to
>> visit the flower. Bees and lots of other bugs like to come to flowers for
>> nectar or pollen, and when one comes in, the spider, hidden by his new
>> color, attacks!
>>
>> I've seen lots of photos of them in books about spiders, but have only
>> seen
>> one in real life. I had just assumed they don't live in the area I do,
>> until
>> 2 yrs ago I saw one on a flower in my grandmother's backyard.
>>
>>
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