Crab spiders are voracious little predators. They typically are sit-and-wait hunters that ambush insects passing close by, grabbing a victim with two sets of long claws. Small prey can be captured ...

While I am a big fan of spiders year-round, now is the time of year when I truly appreciate their presence in my yard as they stalk their herbivorous insect prey. One of the most beautiful spiders I ...

Blossoms abound on the stems of these plants and at any time, hundreds of these five-petaled purple flowers are open. A crab spider uses phlox petals to do its hunting during a late summer day. Note ...

Crab spiders, carried gracefully along by the wind beneath their spun silk parachutes, get to live the fantasy of any imaginative child who’s ever held a kite string and dreamed of flying. As these ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spiders get a bad rap. Many people go to great lengths to avoid or get rid of them. Is it their otherworldly appearance? A concern about being bitten by a ...

On a spring morning walk, I stop to smell a painted trillium and am greeted by a goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia). Bending down for a sniff of the white and pink blooms, I am face to face with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bird-dropping spider (Phrynarachne decipiens, Thomisidae) is a species of crab spider. It mimics a bird dropping in its appearance ...

New research proves that the horseshoe crab is a relative to the spiders after all, and does not belong to the family of crabs. Evolutionary biologists first thought that the blue-blooded horseshoe ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig around in: bird poop. That is the approach taken by newly discovered spider ...