Crab spider (Thomisus onustus) ♀︎ - Ten Metres from Home 1.  (2020)
Crab spider (Thomisus onustus) ♀︎often found on plants where bees visit where they sit waiting..The name derives from the way the animla hols its ront legs ready to grasp an unwary pollinator.. Podere Montecucco, Umbria (Italy) July 2020


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Centrocoris variegatus A conspicuously shaped bug
Checkered beetle (Trichodes alvearius
Checkered beetle (Trichodes alvearius) with honey bee (Apis mellifera)
White-tailed bumble bee ♂︎ (Bombus leucorum)
Crab spider (Misumena vatia) ♀︎ with its coccoon anchored to a leaf of Eryngium
Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)
Digger wasp (Sphex flavipennis).
Crab spider (Thmoisus onustus) with its prey, a Queen of Spain Fritillary (Issonia lathoria)
The oak hawk (Marumba quercus )
The oak hawk (Marumba quercus )
European garden spider (Araneus diadematus
Convolvulus hawk (Herse convolvulii) -
Buff tip ( Phalera bucephala)
Hairy Scolid wasp (Scolia hirta)
Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma,) ♂︎