Tucked away in the shadows of the garden’s giant fleece flowers, a goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia, Clerck 1757) rests beneath its exuviathe empty cast exoskeleton after an arthropod has molted. In this delicate teneralpale and soft-bodied state, it is important that the spider remain hidden from predators and (if bashful) roving bug photographers.
To accentuate this private moment, I used the small Canon 270EX II flash mounted on a cord and hand-held at an angle behind the resting spider.
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