Crab Spider on Rayless Sunflower

by Paul Rebmann

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Crab Spider on Rayless Sunflower

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Paul Rebmann

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Photograph - Photograph

Description

A crab spider on the head of a rayless sunflower with a soft golden background.

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Bugs Bugs and More Bugs

Named crab spiders due to their shape, they are also sometimes called flower spiders for their habit of waiting on flowers for insects to visit and become the spider's prey. The crab spider family is Thomisidae, and this spider is probably in the genus Mecaphesa, previously considered Misumenops.
Rayless, or stiff, sunflower is Helianthus radula and can be found in wet flatwoods through the southeastern coastal United States from Louisiana to South Carolina.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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September 25th, 2014

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