{"id":10877,"date":"2014-06-18T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2014-06-18T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T21:00:24","slug":"yellow-crab-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10877","title":{"rendered":"Yellow crab spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The crab spider (<em>Misumena vatia<\/em>) can change colour from white to yellow. This allows it to become almost invisible as it sits on similarly coloured flowers while it waits to ambush an unsuspecting pollinator. The favourite local perch\u00a0of the crab spider is a daisy, a\u00a0flower\u00a0that offers the spider a choice: remain white and hunt from the petals; turn yellow and hunt from the central yellow disk. Every crab spider on a daisy I have photographed in past years, has chosen to be white on the petals: see <a title=\"Crab spider\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8176\">1<\/a>, <a title=\"Watching crab spiders\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=114\">2<\/a>, <a title=\"Spider deception pays\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5765\">3<\/a>\u00a0or <a title=\"That\u2019s my flower\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2073\">4<\/a>\u00a0(read the comment about the colour shift in 4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year, for the first time, I saw a yellow crab spider on the central disk of a daisy. Who knows why? The only difference I can see is that these pictures were taken just after a rain. It may be that\u00a0the drops on the petals were a nuisance for\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A yellow crab spider hunts from the central yellow disk of a daisy.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10878\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/crabspider140618as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A\u00a0crab spider is skittish and upon spotting me, this one hid under a petal.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10879\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/crabspider140617bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The crab spider (Misumena vatia) can change colour from white to yellow. This allows it to become almost invisible as it sits on similarly coloured flowers while it waits to ambush an unsuspecting pollinator. The favourite local perch\u00a0of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10890,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}