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.

In a shocking display of matriphagy, a mother centipede sacrifices herself for her offspring by becoming their meal.

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

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 ...

Some crab spiders have ditched webs for flowers. Masters of disguise, female Thomisus guangxicus spiders blend in with petals, which allows the arachnids to nab insects that pass by while fooling ...

A diver was swimming amid thousands of spider crabs off the coast of Victoria, Australia, when she noticed that one of them was trapped by the leg in a fishing line.

Scientists found the new species of giant crab spider at a research station located in the heart of the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, northern Ecuador. A study has described the find in the journal ...

A spider seen on a Vermont hiking trail has a remarkable way of catching prey. The crab spider was inside a white hedge bindweed flower on the Schmoker trail in Williston on June 26.

Crab spiders, the small spiders with enlarged front legs, are ambush hunters that sit on leaves or hide in flower petals, waiting for their victims.

Crab spiders nab prey with 'catch of the day' approach. If you cultivate and/or have sunflowers, daisies, or other showy, disk-shaped flowers in your garden or flower beds or have a patch of these ...