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Flower spider
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Fact Box
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Thomisus spectabilis
(RM, QM)
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female: 10 mm
male: 6 mm
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In white flowers and lush green vegetation
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Unknown; thought to be essentially harmless to humans
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This spider likes to wait in the centre of white or yellow flowers for nectar-feeding insects. Presumably it is for thiw reason that its colour can vary from white to yellow.
Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: No similar white spiders are found in the Darling Downs region.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 7 February 2002.
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