Goldenrod crab spiders look a little like miniature crabs, hence the name, and sometimes hold their large front legs curved in front of their heads in a crab-like pose.

This crab spider’s prey consists of flies, bees, moths and other insects that hang around the same flowers the spiders do. As insects land on flowers to collect food themselves, the crab spider uses ...

There are about 3,000 species of crab spider worldwide, with a couple hundred of those found in North America. These ...

Running crab spider The running crab spider (Philodromus dispar) does not build a web, but instead ambushes insect prey. It occasionally enters houses, so you may find one inside.

Crab spiders are voracious little predators. They typically are sit-and-wait hunters that ambush insects passing close by, grabbing a victim with two sets of long claws.

Crab spiders, which are about 5 millimeters long and can change color, were observed checking the wind and spinning 7- to 13-foot-long silk parachutes, according to a study published in PLoS Biology.

Crab spiders, carried gracefully along by the wind beneath their spun silk parachutes, get to live the fantasy of any imaginative child who’s ever held a kite string and dreamed of flying.

This spider's straight off the silver scream - it looks frighteningly like the clown in Stephen King's 1990 hit-film 'It'. The bright green creepy crawlie, which belongs to the thomisidae family ...