Queensland Government

Flower Spider

Thomisus spectabilis

Flower Spider
 

Identification
Full size - 20 cent piece, leg diameter - pin to matchstick. All white or yellow with stout legs held like a crab.

Habitat
Flowers, shrubs, clothes lines and thus clothes. Most common summer. Australia-wide.

Web
Rover.

Bite
Ready biter; mild local pain.

Notes
spotted on white or yellow flowers

 

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