Welcome! @ar3455 Thank you for helping with an identification. This site is 100% run by volunteers and we appreciate all assistance. Your ID may be correct. The other option is Misumenoides formosipes, which sometimes has black on the legs, bit Misumena vatia is not known to. Both are pale green spiders with pink line markings on the sides. Both can change colors to match what they see through internal pigmented chemical shifts. There is a red or white thin band marking under the eye area of M. formosipes. I can’t see if it is there in the photo. I’m not… Read more »
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Looks like it could be a goldenrod crab spider/flower spider (Misumena vatia)
Welcome! @ar3455 Thank you for helping with an identification. This site is 100% run by volunteers and we appreciate all assistance. Your ID may be correct. The other option is Misumenoides formosipes, which sometimes has black on the legs, bit Misumena vatia is not known to. Both are pale green spiders with pink line markings on the sides. Both can change colors to match what they see through internal pigmented chemical shifts. There is a red or white thin band marking under the eye area of M. formosipes. I can’t see if it is there in the photo. I’m not… Read more »