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Mecaphesa asperata
Having come inside after exploring the garden of the property where I was visiting - I felt a tickle on my forehead and gave it a flick. Then I saw movement on the table and there stood this tiny crab spider looking quite bewildered! So tiny at 4 mm.
"Mecaphesa asperata", the northern crab spider, is a species of crab spider in the family Thomisidae, found in North and Central America, and the Caribbean. It is a species of the 'flower spiders', so-called because they generally hunt in similarly coloured flowers for visitors such as bees and flies, and is a much smaller nearctic relative of the better-known Goldenrod Spider ".
Similar species: Spiders
By Ruth Spigelman
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Uploaded Oct 5, 2018. Captured Oct 12, 2015 13:01 in 159 Connellsville St, Uniontown, PA 15401, USA.
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