On 8/16/2010 11:11 AM, 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!
Hmmm. That may answer my mild curiosity when I shot this one in our garden in
'03. If so, it must be in relocation mode,
as it's not color adapted to its location.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=IATMS&image=067_33ia80.jpg>
OMPC, Portra 160NC, Kiron 105/2.8 Macro, f32, ~1/8 sec.
Moose
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