I'm All Over The Map

So, Paula goes to the local Farmer’s Market last weekend, brings home a load of goodies, and a bouquet of flowers.  Lilies to be exact.  They looked amazing, and smelled divine.  However, on close inspection I saw that we had a hitchhiker who’d taken a shine to our floral largess.  You can see him below:

Call Me "Mean Green"

He appeared to be a member of the family Thomisidae, either the genus Mecaphesa or Misumenops, otherwise known as a green crab spider.  There’s a wonderful web site for bugs and arachnids that has other examples of the genus here.

As much as I enjoyed him, I had to gather him (her?) up in cupped hands, take him/her outside, charge her/him with watching over our basil plants and release him/her.  Cool, eh?