Bad news for arachnophobes: Scientists reveal how the whitebanded crab spider can change its COLOUR when hunting. Female of the species use their colour-changing ability to ambush prey ...

Ideas about crab spider coloration have been unraveling since 2001 when Lars Chittka, also of Queen Mary, pointed out that bees see ultraviolet wavelengths but that non–UV-reflecting spiders ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants.. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

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.

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 ...