Comments on: Crab Spider

By: Female Crab Spider

Female Crab Spider — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:25:40 +0000

[...] for how they hunt, spiders in this genus typically hang out in flowers and wait for some pollinator to come by. Then, as David Brady so eloquently put it, they bite it in the face. This unfortunately means that [...]

By: David Brady

David Brady — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:48:48 +0000

Bill: Whoops! Sorry, I credit ‘em as I receive ‘em; I never know when an omission is accidental or deliberate anonymizing. I’ve credited her. Sorry Lynn, and thank you for the photo!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:29:40 +0000

My wife Lynn pointed out that (ah hem) she has a name. Oops, I suppose I should have mentioned that in my email with the photo…

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:49:38 +0000

That’s great! Thanks.

By: David Brady

David Brady — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:46:34 +0000

Eleanor: how about this?

I cropped that one down, so you lose some of the flower. I can squish it down if you’d prefer (th image would be a bit blurry).

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:14:04 +0000

Very cool picture! And a neat story behind it too, if even the photographer didn’t realize the spider was there until later. I wish I were this lucky.

I know it would mess up the lovely composition, but is there any way I could get it in a 1440 x 900 sort of format for a wallpaper?

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:54:30 +0000

This is my second-favorite spider picture ever! Very cool

By: Entr0physt

Entr0physt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:25:15 +0000

“Honey, I’m h…?!”
*P’chewy CHOMP!*
I wonder what bee-face tastes like?

By: Kestralyn

Kestralyn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:21:10 +0000

Gotta love a straight-forward predator! I bite you in the face!

I think the spider adds a very cool dimension to the gorgeous flower photo.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:55:06 +0000

That’s gorgeous.