Bright yellow spider ID, UK (2 Viewers)

[Larry Sweetland]

Found this shockingly yellow spider in a Bristol garden yesterday. What is it, and is it a native species? Maybe 2cm across including legs.

Cheers,

larry

 

[salticus]

Found this shockingly yellow spider in a Bristol garden yesterday. What is it, and is it a native species? Maybe 2cm across including legs.

Cheers,

larry

Gosh, it is a deep yellow. It's Misumena vatia , a crab spider. It sits on flowers and waits for bees, hoverflies etc. to stop to feed on nectar. It can change colour slowly within the range of white / pale yellow / bright yellow (apparently, never experimented with a specimen myself).

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Gosh, it is a deep yellow. It's Misumena vatia , a crab spider. It sits on flowers and waits for bees, hoverflies etc. to stop to feed on nectar. It can change colour slowly within the range of white / pale yellow / bright yellow (apparently, never experimented with a specimen myself).

Thanks Salticus :t:

 

[turkish van]

Wow, what a spider. Crab spiders are good enough even without being bright yellow!