Misumena vatia – These have to be the craftiest spiders I know of. This one was waiting for flies to land on the rose blossom to grab and eat. Double-click image for a closer look.
© Peter Hillman ♦ 21st June 2019 ♦ Back garden, Staffordshire ♦ Nikon D7200
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I absolutely love crab spider, Pete, and lament the fact that I see them so rarely. Beautiful capture of this one–we all know that roses have thorns, but apparently other dangers lurk as well.
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Thank you, MIke. These spiders never fail to fascinate me, and I guess I am lucky for I do keep finding them around the garden.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you 🙂
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An amazing spider, alone in his kind and so well photographed!
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Thank you very much, Anita 🙂 At least he has helped keep the greenfly down 🙂
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Grab is so much better than crab.:-) They are pretty prolific in the meadows.On some of our garden plants as well.
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Wow, those eyes are looking right back at all of us! What a fascinating spider. If we have that variety here I’ve never seen it. Cool capture!
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Thank you, Sandra 🙂 They are masters of disguise, so I guess they are being effective there at hiding in full view – which is what they do in hoping a fly will land near thinking they are part of the flower.
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Oh I see! That’s so cool!
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Great photo Peter! She looks like a piece of Easter candy … good enough to eat!!
Hope you are safe and doing well.
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Thank you very much, Dwight 🙂 I am okay, self isolating because I still have breathng issues which are as yet undiagnosed, but probably linked to a virus I had last year. Damn these viruses. I hope you and yours are safe and well there.
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Thank you Pete, we are doing well so far!
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That’s very good to know, Dwight! 🙂
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wow that’s an amazing shot! looks like it has lots of eyes! 👀👀👀🕷
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Thank you 🙂 Eight eyes altogether. They never miss a thing 🙂
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wow 👀
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Terrific shot, Pete!
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂
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Great capture, Pete. I just wish these guys wouldn’t target bees!
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Thank you, Eliza. I know, and butterflies, too.
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I don’t generally like spiders, but for some reason these little guys don’t bother me – perhaps because they don’t look so spidery. (It’s the legs; it’s always all those d*** legs.) Our crab spiders favour the yellow coreopsis we have at our cottage; you never have to look far to find one. I do admire their camo abilities!
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I also like the variations in white and the colours in the patterns. Thank you, gillyflower 🙂
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Always impressed with these shots 👏👏
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Thank you very much, Ted 🙂
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Thank you, I got it.
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What a beauty .. I don’t think I have seen one of these before!
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Thank you, Julie. They are seldomm seen, so I was lucky 🙂
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That is a great picture. I have never seen one of those
Stay well and Laugh when you can
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Thank you!
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