#crab spider

[summerswages]

Crab spiders have pretty big appetites apparently . . .

[northwestphotag1]

The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is the largest known species of crab and the arthropod with the greatest leg span. From claw to claw, its spindly legs can stretch up to 12 to 13 feet (3.7 to 4 meters), while weighing up to 44 pounds (20 kg). Despite its fearsome, spider-like appearance, it is a slow-moving, gentle scavenger.

It’s like a monster movie in Japanese waters…no wonder they made monster movies there !

😲🦀

[teaganisokey]

At the park today

[summerswages]

agony and ecstasy . . .

[drhoz]

#3879 - Diaea ambara

"Amber-coloured through Spring", from the Sanskrit for yellow-brown hues, and the usual season these crab spiders are seen.

First described by Swiss-born Kiwi arachnologist Arthur Torrane Urquhart (1839 –1916) in 1885, as Philodromus ambarus.

A New Zealand endemic that's into bondage - or at least, the female lets the males lash her down with silk before he mates with her. He then flees, and the female breaks free without difficulty.

Like other crab spiders, an ambush predator that lurks among leaves and flowers for unwary insects.

Waikawa, Aotearoa New Zealand.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Close-Up Insect Photos By Fauzan Maududdin That Feel Like They’re From A Fantasy World

Crab Spider

[quinnfrankephotography]

Some photos from my walk today. Hot, humid and lots of bugs again.

[flowerbarrel-art]

Accidentally knocked the resident bathroom spider into the bathtub today. It’s maybe the same one that I fished out of the tub a while back (it was in dire need of Liquid Plumber at the time). I put it on a towel, left it alone, and a little bit later I checked on it and it had come back to life. Tonight I put it in the bathroom cabinet and it hasn’t left there yet.

Now every time I go into the bathroom we play hide-and-seek with one other spider that’s in there. It was fun trying to find where they were so I turned it into a game. Looking for them cheers me up in the morning.

(Photos under cut, and photo/video of a teeny white maybe crab spider who I thought was a floating piece of fuzz at first)

^ I think this is the one who fell in the tub and came back to life about a month ago. Look at this spiky little spoob.

This is the other one who I think has never been in the bathtub.

And here is the teeny bit of fluff spider. After it floated around for a bit it landed on my gem pencil.