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Crab Spider on Gaillardia

Crab Spider on Gaillardia
The third rather uninspiring photo of the day, lol! Some days, I just have no enthusiasm for posting the photos I've grabbed! Needed this one for my Set about the Leighton Art Centre, showing some of the flora and fauna that three of us found and listed when we botanized the hillside belonging to the Centre, on 6 July 2013. I love seeing Gaillardia flowers that are just beginning to open, surrounded by all those fine hairs. Happened to notice this tiny Crab Spider on this one.

UPDATE (9 July 2013) on the Calgary Zoo:

"The Calgary Zoo announced today that it will begin to move animals to other institutions on a permanent basis beginning as early as next week.

Recent flooding caused extensive damage across the zoo's 32-acre island. The South America building is one of the oldest facilities at the zoo and was one of the hardest hit in the flood. Dr. Clément Lanthier, zoo president and CEO, said the damage to the building and its systems is so extensive that it has been determined that it makes no sense to invest very limited resources in its repair. "Sadly this means we have to quickly find new homes for the 34 individual animals representing 11 species that were housed in this building," said Dr. Lanthier.

Prior to the flood, the zoo was looking for new homes for one white stork, one Parma wallaby, two black swans and seven Rock hyraxes--that search is ongoing and these animals will also be transferred to other facilities as soon as possible. This brings the total of animals to be moved to 45 individuals representing 15 species." From Calgary Zoo e-mail.

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 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Looks like a Whitebanded Crab Spider (Misumenoides formosipes) ... Excellent all around macro shot Anne, of both the flower and the Spider!!

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Sad to lose these animals Anne ... as I do not know the situation there, I hope the main concern is for the benefit of the animals in question ... as I probably think it is.
11 years ago.
Anne Elliott club has replied to LeapFrog
Argh! Just, for some unknown reason, clicked on Cancel instead of Reply, so lost my whole reply. Absolutely, the welfare of the animals will come first for the Zoo. I know the staff and volunteers must be feeling heartsick at all the damage and the losses, including having to send certain animals to other Zoos, etc.. Thanks for the spider ID - haven't looked at it yet. I'm still transferring the last few photo Sets and trying to deal with a few of the endless duplicate photos on my photostream - what a pain! I believe I know why this has happened, though. Just a thought - can you see all the duplicates, or is this something that only I can see?
11 years ago.
 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Well Done!!
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Pond!!
11 years ago.

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