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* Goldenrod Spider *
I walked up to a nice big black berry bush to pick some berries
and I notice this bumble bee just sitting there on one of the
blossoms. It didn't fly away and as I got closer I realized that
it was dead and something had a death grip on it. Just Sunday I
found another similar spider sitting right up on top of a bright
pink thistle. It was very easy to see as it stuck out like a soar
thumb.
I looked this up today and they actually had
two pictures for the Goldenrod Spider. Also known as the Flower
Spider or Red-Spotted Crab Spider. Now, in the book, one picture
had the bright yellow spider and one had the white one with pink
stripes down its sides.. Either way these little jerks like to
hide in a flower and wait for an unsuspecting visitor so they can
attack them. Now the smart ones usually like to sit and wait deep
in flowers that are the same color as they are, such as the white
one with the bumble bee. This yellow one must have been really
stupid or color blind or something. Either way, it didn't have
any bugs visiting that flower.
