Whitebanded Crab Spider
Unexpectedly this whitebanded crab spider popped out of this buckthorn cholla cactus flower as I was photographing it in Southern Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the US-Mexico border. These tiny spiders can take down surprisingly big prey - much bigger than themselves, and this one was clearly well-fed. Bees were everywhere!
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- ©2015
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- 4357x2905 / 4.1MB
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Ajo, Angiosperms, Animalia, Arachnida, Araneae, Arizona, Arthropoda, Buck horn cholla, C. acanthocarpa, Cactaceae, Caryophyllales, Colorado Desert Cholla, Core eudicots, Cylindropuntia, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, Eudicots, M. formosipes, Major Cholla, Misumenoides, Misumenoides formosipes, OPCNM, Opuntia acanthocarpa, Opuntia californica, Opuntia echinocarpa, Opuntia thornberi, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County, Plantae, Puerto Blanco, Puerto Blanco Mountains, Sonoran Desert, Thomisidae, Thornber Cholla, animal, arachnid, arachnophobia, arid, arthropod, beautiful, beauty, botany, buckhorn, buckhorn cholla, bug, cacti, cactus, cholla, crab spider, critter, desert, dicot, fauna, flora, flower crab spider, green, heat, hunter, hurt, insect, invertebrate, killer, native, natural, nature, orange, pain, painful, perennial, plant, poke, predator, prey, prickle, prickly, ridge-faced flower spider, sharp, shrub, southwest, spider, spike, spiky, spring, stinger, stinging, succulent, thorn, thorny, venomous, west, western, white, white crab spider, whitebanded crab spider, wild, wildlife, yellow crab spider
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