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Misumena vatia or Enoplognatha ovata?
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- Submitted: Jun 12, 2020
- Photographed: Jun 12, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Coinsins, Switzerland
- Spotted Outdoors: On Flower
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Unidentified
Picture ID 111310
It’s a goldenrod crab spider, I think
Thank you!
Hi, It is probably a female specimen of Misumena vatia, of the Thomisidae family.
Thank you – this confirms Golden-rod Crab Spider and interesting to know it is a female. Since I posted the photo, the spider has caught a bee under one of the rose petals …
Yep!
Yes it is a classic 🙂
I personally saw a specimen that caught a butterfly, much larger than the spider.
Impressive …
They’re cool spiders, in the photo you took you can see how wide the front legs are, wider than the body is long, almost like pincers to catch large prey