Nice shot! That is a female crab spider - very common garden spider. They typically pick up a bit of the color of the flower they reside on - sometimes they are kind of yellow, often white with pink. Males are tiny in comparison and black.
Love the mauve flowers.
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edited September 13, 2007
Lovely shot- a flower crab spider. They can change their colour a bit to match the flower but are limited to white to ywllow as the main colour- this crab spider was obviously having difficulty
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Love the mauve flowers.
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Excellent find Very very sharp shot David.
Beautiful colours too.
I've only ever seen really tiny ones here, in USA I saw much larger ones.
Thanks for sharing David ... Skippy
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did some reasearch on crab spiders ,interesting!
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