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biothanasis
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Here is a crab-spider on a peppermint inforescence having its meal...at my girlfriend's appartment...!!!! She hates spiders, but I love them...LOL!
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cdub
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Cool. I wonder if these spiders have the ability to influence the color of their exoskeleton depending on which plant they make their home. For example, the crab spiders always seem to be excellently camoflagued to the flower they are found on. The bright white ones are always found on daisys and similarly white flowers. Are they raised on these plants, and therefore have the correct color genes, or do they "seek out" these plants once they leave their mother after birth. Can they tell what color plant they are on? I love invertebrates!
Nice hover fly this one has too! I love hover flies. I could watch them in my garden for hours.
Nice hover fly this one has too! I love hover flies. I could watch them in my garden for hours.
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Beautiful and deadly! Nice shots too.
Cool photo!
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biothanasis
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Thanks guys!!!
cdub I do not have the answers to your questions but I'd love to have them one day....hehe... The only thing I know is that once they are removed from the desired flower they seem unable to obtain the colour of the other flower they are moved to, but this fact needs to be clarified. Also, they can adjust their colour some tones lower and some tones higher than the colour of the flower. Some say they can adjust perfectly to any colour, but I have no idea if it is true....
cdub I do not have the answers to your questions but I'd love to have them one day....hehe... The only thing I know is that once they are removed from the desired flower they seem unable to obtain the colour of the other flower they are moved to, but this fact needs to be clarified. Also, they can adjust their colour some tones lower and some tones higher than the colour of the flower. Some say they can adjust perfectly to any colour, but I have no idea if it is true....
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Good photos, especially #2.
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Kevin
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Cool photos!
Chameleon spiders? I never knew that.
Chameleon spiders? I never knew that.
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goldenrose
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:clap::clap: Survival of the fitest!
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Bolero
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Oh god I hate spiders. That is either a small spider or a huge bee!
Great photography though.
Great photography though.
It's a hover fly! I like hoverflies but everybody's got to eat!
likespaphs
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you sure it's a hoverfly/sweatbee/syrphid fly? i can't tell.
syrphid larva eat lots and lots of aphids but look kinda like caterpillars.
syrphid larva eat lots and lots of aphids but look kinda like caterpillars.
JeanLux
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Great pics Thanasis: bravo!!!! Jean
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Clark
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Cool!
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biothanasis
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thank you all for the comments!
Eric and likespahs are right... it is a fly mimicing a bee.... or a bee-wannabe fly...! You can see this from the insect's eyes...!
Eric and likespahs are right... it is a fly mimicing a bee.... or a bee-wannabe fly...! You can see this from the insect's eyes...!
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biothanasis
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Hmmmm.....
I saw the other day another small brown crab-spider sitting in between the rotten flowers on the same plant, but did not take a photo of it....! It was very tiny...! (maybe this explains the colour????)
I saw the other day another small brown crab-spider sitting in between the rotten flowers on the same plant, but did not take a photo of it....! It was very tiny...! (maybe this explains the colour????)
Ah-ha!
