Posts Tagged: crab spider
A Bad Day for a Butterfly
It was a bad day for a butterfly. We stopped by the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, part of the UC...
Crab spider with its kill, a cabbage white butterly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This one got away. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
All that glitters is not gold.The gold coin flowers (Asteriscus maritimus) planted in our yard...
Camouflaged crab spider waits for prey on a gold coin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of crab spider camouflaged on gold coin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Not a Good Day for a Flower Fly
It was not a good day for a flower fly.A flower fly, aka syrphid fly, dropped down in a patch of...
Crab spider nails a flower fly in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crab spider loses its prey and heads down a stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Ambush
We can learn a lot from insects, especially when a predator ambushes its prey.An ambush, as defined...
Crab Spider
Gotcha!
Crab Spider Nails a Fly
The crab spider didn't go away hungry.Camouflaged in the petals of a sedum, the cunning predator...
The Encounter
Ambush
Paralyzing Bite
Better Grip
Dinner