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Crab spider
Copyright © 2007 Aaron Goodwin

Crab spider
Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, USA
July 6, 2007

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Contributed by Aaron Goodwin on 25 December, 2007 - 10:53pm
Last updated 21 January, 2008 - 4:30pm

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… john and jane balaban, 21 January, 2008 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

White spiders
Back on 5-11-2006 I found a near duplicate to your spider. See the photo I just posted, titled: "38,848.03830 Wild Rose, crab spider, bee".

When I looked for white spiders on the Internet, I found a couple references that were somewhat similar. Take a look: http://bugguide.net/node/view/22373/bgpage. That spider was white with pink markings and is/was called a Crab spider &/or Goldenrod Spider -- Misumena vatia. I would be surprised if mine is the same species as the one mentioned on the Internet, which was from the east coast, and I am west coast.

I also found them here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/23931/bgpage ---- http://bugguide.net/node/view/1957/bgpage . I just pulled this site up again, and it now has way more white spiders, and more than one genus.

My photo is of a wild rose with one of the white spiders that had just caught a bee. Good for me, not for the bee!

Good luck with the ID. Bob Paulson
… Bob Paulson, 6 January, 2008 - 3:14am login or register to post comments

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