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Fletcher Wildlife Garden | all galleries >> Spiders and Harvestmen (Arachnida) of the FWG >> Running Crab Spiders (Family: Philodromidae) > Running crab spider with long-jawed orb-weaver
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18-MAY-2010 Christine Hanrahan

Running crab spider with long-jawed orb-weaver

This running crab spider (Tibellus oblongus) was stretched along the stem of this dog-strangling vine (DSV). Nearby was the long-jawed orb-weaver (Tetragnatha sp.) who made the mistake of running across the path of the crab spider who moved with lightning speed to capture and paralyze the orb-weaver within a second. Just above, were a couple of jumping spiders. All these spiders on one DSV plant.

Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
1/100s f/5.6 at 5.0mm iso200 full exif

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