Colour matters – a spider’s relationship with Cypripedium calceolus
Misumena vatia, a crab spider has developed a special relationship with orchids. Sitting on an albiflora form of Dactylorhiza fuchsii it wears its white body, a...
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Flower colour matters
The females of this crab spider (Misumena vatia) can change their colour depending on the colour of the flower where they sit and wait for a prey. On a white fl...