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Misumena vatia
The goldenrod crab spider is one of the larger crab spiders, so named because it often lives on goldenrod. When living on white flowers, as this one on a shasta daisy, they excrete their yellow pigmentation. The females consume large amounts of fairly large insects in order to get enough protein to lay their eggs
On a shasta daisy
I watched her off and on all afternoon, hoping to catch her with prey
Spotted on Jun 16, 2013
Submitted on Jun 18, 2013
3 Comments
Thank you! This was so much fun to capture!
Really, really nice Karen!
Lovely!