Crab spider (Thomisus onustus) ♀︎  - Ten Metres from Home 2021
Crab spider (Thomisus onustus) ♀︎ often found on plants where bees visit where they sit waiting. The colour can vary from white (with additional areas of reddish tones and even blue) to plain bright yellow. Here the female sits in wait on a fragrant orcvhid (Gymnadenia conopsea) The common name, crab spider, derives from the way the animla hols its ront legs ready to grasp an unwary pollinator..Mte Amiata, Toscana, Italy. June 2021


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