Female godenrod spider, misumena vatia

paddler4paddler4 Registered Users Posts: 976 Major grins
edited June 24, 2013 in Holy Macro
These are apparently very common, at least on this side of the pond, but I had never seen one--or perhaps had never seen one in white. I was wandering through a botanical garden, trying to teach myself how to use a wide-angle lens for flower shots, when I suddenly noticed this, blowing in the wind. I quickly put on a macro lens and took a bunch of shots, trying to hold the bush still while holding the camera in the other hand. This was the sharpest of the bunch. I spent some time digging up information about these, and it turns out they can turn white or yellow, to camouflage themselves. I think it was about 1 cm, front to back. It's a type of crab spider.

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