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Yellow spider to ID - Misumenops celer
Copyright © 2005 Kildale

Yellow spider to ID - Misumenops celer
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
June 15, 2005
Found this yellow spider today. Is it a golden rod crab spider? Do the white ones change colour? Looks more patterned than the ones from last year.
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Contributed by Kildale on 16 June, 2005 - 8:06pm
Last updated 27 July, 2005 - 8:26pm

Not goldenrod crab spider.
Misumena vatia is smooth, not hairy like this. Could be this is a species of Misumenops, a closely related genus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 June, 2005 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks Eric. You are right, Misumenops.
… Kildale, 17 June, 2005 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

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