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Tiny arachnid

Postby Clay » Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:17 am

Seen this small spider on chilling around my flowers and eventually got a decent photo.

Any ideas what it is?

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Re: Tiny arachnid

Postby ColinWa » Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:49 am

That looks like a flower crab spider. T. labefactus, I stand corrected on the scientific name for them.
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Re: Tiny arachnid

Postby deonkwagga » Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:18 pm

Yellow Flower Crab Spider, Thomisus sp.
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Re: Tiny arachnid

Postby Clay » Tue Oct 08, 2013 1:31 pm

Awesome thanks guys ;)
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