Yellow Accents - _TNY_5539 (In Explore 3/5 2022)
Since they can shift colour from white like this all the way to deep yellow, the female goldenrod crab spiders (Misumena vatia) are well adapted to their life as ambush predators, waiting at the top of flowers for unsuspecting prey to land in front of them.
This one, sporting the white colour, looks like she has stepped around a bit in the center of the ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) as her feet have gotten a bit dirty.
Yellow Accents - _TNY_5539 (In Explore 3/5 2022)
Since they can shift colour from white like this all the way to deep yellow, the female goldenrod crab spiders (Misumena vatia) are well adapted to their life as ambush predators, waiting at the top of flowers for unsuspecting prey to land in front of them.
This one, sporting the white colour, looks like she has stepped around a bit in the center of the ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) as her feet have gotten a bit dirty.