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The Death in a Flower - Beauty

 

Once there was a speckled yellow...

 

Its beauty didn't save it from death:  A Speckled Yellow (Pseudopanthera macularia) became the victim of the invisible sit-and-wait predator, well camouflaged by its background of blossoms. 

The strategy of the crab spider is always the same: it takes its victims by surprise during the landing process. 


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Photograph by José Verkest, Text by Maria Pfeifer