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Goldenrod Crab Spider - Misumena vatia - female

Goldenrod Crab Spider - Misumena vatia - Female
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
July 1, 2008
Found on Bleeding-heart flowers. The much larger prey was a Yellow Faced Bumble Bee - Bombus vosnesenskii - which I addded to my collection. I brought the spider in to my bug studio for a few photos - three of which are thumbnail-linked below. The spider was returned live to her bleeding-heart flowers.

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