Brown flower crab spider
The brown flower crab spider is a crab spider from Africa that lives on bushes and trees. Its body is rough and bumpy, covered in tiny knobs. It often sits holding its strong front legs together, ready to grab a passing insect.
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The female is 7 to 8 millimetres long, while the male is only 3 to 5 millimetres.
Females can be off-white, yellow or orange, while males are dark brown.
A mother glues her white egg sac to a curved leaf and stays with it until the babies are strong enough to leave.
There are many more of them in summer than in the rest of the year.
It also lives in avocado and orange orchards.
Most asked questions about Brown flower crab spider
?Why is it called a crab spider?
Because it holds its strong front legs out like a crab and can walk sideways.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thomisus scrupeus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Brown crab spider
Where the facts come from
- Thomisus scrupeus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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