Flower Spider (Diaea species)
This Flower Spider is one of many species with these markings and green legs.
Flower Spiders don't have webs and hunt by ambushing. They sit still and wait
on a flower until an unsuspecting insect passes by.
In this case
the prey
is a
Satin-green Forester Moth (a daytime flying moth) and the plant it is
waiting on is a Milkmaid (a lily; Burchardia umbellata).
Most Flower Spiders have a 1cm long body. They eat flies, bees, beetles, moths and
butterflies.
This isn't an aggresive spider and no spider in this family is known to have
a
toxic
bite. Photos are taken by Peter Marriott on the Shone-Scholz Land.
