Howdy, BugFans, Another day, another crab spider. This time, it’s the Metallic Crab spider, and while it may resemble last week’s Whitebanded crab spider (family Thomisidae), it’s in a whole, different crab spider family, Philodromidae, the Running crab spiders. Philodromidae comes …
Greetings, BugFans, The BugLady loves crab spiders, so she’s been thrilled to find two, new (to her) species in the last few years. One, the Whitebanded crab spider, is in the family Thomisidae, a family of, well, crab-shaped spiders, many of …
Note: All links are to external sites. Howdy, BugFans, Crab spiders need no introduction to these pages – several genera of delicate, flower crab spiders https://bugguide.net/node/view/621778/bgpage, https://bugguide.net/node/view/3928/bgpage, https://bugguide.net/node/view/2201967/bgimage have appeared in previous episodes. Well, maybe a quick review: They are …
Note: All the links leave to external site. Howdy, BugFans, The BugLady is already fantasizing about warm, sunny days in a wetland, photographing Swamp milkweed (and dragonflies), because she loves its color, and she loves being in wetlands, and because …
Howdy, BugFans, The Autumnal Equinox is fast upon us, alas, and even though it was a very hot one, the BugLady would like to push that Restart button and go back to the beginning of August. Failing that, here are …
