Wildflowers and spiders

Roy Patience · Post by **Roy Patience** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:08 pm

I felt lucky when I found this Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum) with the added bonus of a small spider. If anyone knows what it is let me know. I set up and waited for the spider to show itself when the wind wasn't whipping the flower around.

Thanks for looking.

Roy

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rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:24 pm

What we can see of the spider looks like the white form of Misumena vatia, the "Goldenrod Crab Spider".

--Rik

Roy Patience · Post by **Roy Patience** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:31 pm

Thanks Rik, I'm not very good at identifying insects.

Roy

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:09 pm

Well, I would have guessed the flower in completely the wrong group -- like about 300 pages away, in my favorite book!

--Rik

Roy Patience · Post by **Roy Patience** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 6:15 pm

I can identify the flowers easily since the National Park Service has a Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains app on the iPad. It allows you to narrow down suggestions by color, size and other factors.

They also have a website at:

http://www.smmflowers.org/

Roy

desert bluegrass · Post by **desert bluegrass** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:53 am

That is such a beautiful blue. I hike alot in the Big Bend National Park and live just three miles outside of it. I find searching for wildflower id a bit like searching for that needle. I'm going to give that link a try.

Wildflowers and spiders

Wildflowers and spiders

Beautiful!!! and Thanks for the NPS Link to wildflowers.