White Crabspider

Nature is fascinating in the way that so many of the insects and animals are perfectly disguised in their habitat. This little white crabspider is almost invisible on the rose where he waits to pounce on visiting bees and other insects. He is maybe a 1/4 of an inch in body length. This is a very small rose he is on too.

Most crab spiders have the ability change colour depending on what flower they are on.

Their venom is such that any prey they catch dies within seconds.

Crab spiders to not spin webs and being so small, their prey is usually bigger than them so they will hide behind what they catch on the flower and suck the insides out.

They will sometimes spend their entire lives on just one plant.

Green Crab Spider (Synema Sp) Thomisidae

I found this tiny little hunting spider on a rose. He is hardly bigger than two match-heads together.
He was busy spining a web for himself amongst the petals.....

and as I got near, he sent some onto the branch next to me. This is an awful photograph but if you enlarge it, you can see the silk coming out on the right.