#thomisidae

some impressive verticality from this very gravid mystery Misumena. with crab spiders being as grumpy as they are, this is one of the best possible outcomes to approaching one - a photo of them all scrunched up is fun, but this pose really was made for the classic lazy vertical phone shot

she was still grumpy though

Crab Spider (Epicadus heterogaster), family Thomisidae, Brazil

A skeleton crab spider (Phrynarachne sp.) captures a fly in North Vietnam

hello my dears... the last time i shot a tortoise beetle it became the most noted post on my blog... so heres another tortoise beetle i saw

what's red and black and gold all over? Chiridopsis scalaris is another tortoise beetle with that cool translucent edge just like my previous asian tortoise beetle sighting. like other tortoise beetles, this one was real small, kinda like pinky nail sized

always makes me so excited to see tortoise beetles. i wish i saw them more often. i regret not taking more pics of this lil guy from more angles but i didnt have long before it flew away

coincidentally, i saw the flat abdomen crab spider (Camaricus maugei) just next to the tortoise beetle, with a strikingly similar colour palette!!

a very common crab spider species that ive somehow never shot before? only for it to appear right next to a tortoise beetle sharing the red and black and gold colouration. and clear legs too! how crazy is that

New spider just droped!

Crowned crab spider:

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-02087-2/index.html

Epicadus granulatus

A crab spider from South and Central America.