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[bad dragon bzzz]

nice nice nice

 

[Dabber]

wow.......im invisible again........think I will go to the shop, naked and freak them out!!!

you just freaked me out

 

[Vapo]

Jenny Agutter in Logan's run!

 

[Dr Fluff]

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Garden pest....she wasn't pushing up daisies..just sleeping in them...little witch..

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This is where I have to watch for wasps...they Enjoy the Lavender...

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Evening @richykn ..sharing one...you finding your way around site okay..?

Looks like you have a Pink Crab Spider - Thomisus onustus.
Taxonomic Hierarchy

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  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Arachnida
  • Order: Araneae
  • Suborder: Araneomorphae
  • Family: Thomisidae
  • Genus: Thomisus
  • Species: Thomisus onustus

They apparently don't spin webs but prefer to ambush prey and normally dispatch them with a bite to the neck.
They use "homochromy" to blend into the background. Homochromy is a form of camouflage or protective colouring in animals that makes an individual visually become part of the whole group or landscape.

The spiders are disguised by assuming the same colour as the flower, fooling both insect and bird predators. The prey consists of flower-visiting insects of all species, such as hover flies, bees, wasps, butterflies or beetles, which are often several times larger than the spider. They take their prey with two powerful and highly enlarged front leg pairs and usually kill them by biting on the back of their neck. Emerging spiderlings of Thomisus onustus may feed on pollen or nectar when insect prey is lacking.
Females are very variable in colour, their basic colour can be white, yellow pale brown or pink, sometimes with additional shades of red.

On the front section of the body (prosoma), the foremost edge is elongated to both sides. In the males, the prosoma is yellowish-brown to dark brown. In pink females, the prosoma often has a wide, dark grey band at the edgesme. The prosoma is occasionally shiny and has a bright median stripe. The rear section of the body (opisthosoma) is shaped, more or less, like a triangle in both sexes. In the males, the opisthosoma is yellowish green to brownish. The yellow (or white) females bear yellow or pink stripes on their opisthosoma, while the pink coloured females are often spotted with white.

The 2 anterior pairs of legs in Thomisus onustus are very long, broad curled in light brown or reddish brown, and are, in resting position, posited at an angle and bent forward. Due to this these spiders resemble crabs with large claws. They are able to walk sideways. In the males, the first pair of legs can be three to five times longer than the last pair. The two rear pairs of legs are uniformly light beige. The pink females, often have dark grey stripes on their legs.

Pink Crab Spider

A Pink Crab spider using homochromy to blend in!

Where Pink Crab Spiders are generally found.

 

[Vapo]

you just freaked me out

......... I went but I didn't freak them out as expected.......they said they wouldn't call the police cause they haven't laughed so hard in a long time..........well!

 

[Vapo]

......... I went but I didn't freak them out as expected.......they said they wouldn't call the police cause they haven't laughed so hard in a long time..........well!

.....turns out im not invisible.............

 

[Vapo]

.....turns out im not invisible.............

......and it's bloody cold out..........:smiley1:

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

is that the film,dont think i ever saw it.

 

[Vapo]

is that the film,dont think i ever saw it.

aw dude its an awesome classic.......Michael thingymajig is in it!!

 

[Vapo]

Michael York......