Wow how did I miss that!

Pete

When I was doing my local patch walk last week, I noticed a Bee behaving rather strangely, so I took a photograph of it. When I looked at the photo later I could see why as it was being held by a Crab Spider. Despite being white on a blue flower, I just hadn’t seen the spider when watching in the field.

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Published by Pete

I am semi-retired after a career in medical sciences. I now work from home doing independent research and consultancy amongst other things. One advantage of this is that I do have time to indulge my interests including birdwatching, natural history, steam trains and history particularly ancient history.

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  1. Crab spiders are amazingly good at hiding in plain sight, and at catching bees. I’ve occasionally found them with bumble bee queens.

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