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Flower spider
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Fact Box
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Diaea prasina (RM)
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female: 6.5 mm
male: 5 mm
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On flowers and green leaves or in a retreat made from a folded leaf
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Too small to cause human illness
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Like many Diaea species this spider is green apart from the abdomen which is white with red markings that are quite variable. These colour schemes allow this spider to ambush insects that land on white flowers and green leaves.
Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Diaea species and another Diaea species.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 1 February 2010.
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