There is a whole story behind this image that took place a month before I ever registered for BugGuide so I didn't really think to get more pictures. Here's what I did though: We have a huge amount of flower crab spiders living on our flowers and since I knew that the Misumena vatia can change colors to match their environment (only yellow and white though)...I took a white female with red stripes off of our Echinacea flowers (which are pink), used a Sharpie to put a dot on the dorsal abdomen, and transplanted it to a Rudbeckia hirta flower (light orange) about 15 feet away. Then I tied a twist-tie around the base of the flower so I'd remember which flower it was on. I guess long story short, it took 6 days for the spider to finally turn yellow and it never did leave that same flower. This information can probably all be easily read in books, and I have read it myself actually...but I like to find out for myself. Plus it gives me something fun to do!

The only reason why I didn't crop this photo was because I wanted to show how she had camouflaged herself. It's fine if this needs to be frassed, no biggie. :)