Purple makes him sad. He's headed for the yellow side, which is close to
his natural color. ;~)
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Crab Spider
> On 8/16/2010 11:11 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Crab Spiders are really cool. They sit inside flowers and most of them
>> can actually change color and sometimes even pattern to match the look of
>> the flower upon which it is sitting at the moment. Instead of catching
>> bugs in a sticky web, the Crab Spider sits in the flower and waits for an
>> insect to visit the flower. Bees and lots of other bugs like to come to
>> flowers for nectar or pollen, and when one comes in, the spider, hidden
>> by his new color, attacks!
>
> Hmmm. That may answer my mild curiosity when I shot this one in our garden
> in '03. If so, it must be in relocation mode,
> as it's not color adapted to its location.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=IATMS&image=067_33ia80.jpg>
>
> OMPC, Portra 160NC, Kiron 105/2.8 Macro, f32, ~1/8 sec.
>
> Moose
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