Flower Spider

O I had to look this one up and found out some interesting stuff about this kind of spider so I am going to share that Intel with yinz..

To be honest, this Crab Spider was none too easy to find. Some Crab Spiders--so called because their long, spindly legs are configured roughly like those of marine crabs (which, by the way have ten legs, not eight)--stake out a hunting ground on a large inflorescence and are called "Flower Spiders." They typically exhibit the same color as their host blossom--be it white, yellow, or pink--a perfect camouflage. Crab Spiders and Flower Spiders are classified in the closely related Thomisidae (the ambushers) or Philodromidae (the chasers), two rather large families with wide distribution; about 200 species occur in North America, and another 1,800 elsewhere.

Like all Crab Spiders, Flower Spiders do not spin elaborate webs (although males may wrap prospective mates in a silken veil--likely as a hedge against cannibalism). Instead, Flower Spiders blend in with blossoms where they wait with two pairs of forelegs spread wide to ambush unsuspecting prey.
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