Fancy a game of hide and seek? If you lose, you get eaten by a spider.

Crab Spiders like this one are some of the animal kingdom’s premier ambush predators. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, each perfectly suited for hunting undetected in a particular environment. Some pretend to be orchids, others pretend to be ants, and others mimic a wide range of plants and flowers.

They’re found on every continent except Antarctica, so no matter where you are in the world, you never know where a Crab Spider might be hiding…

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Crab Spider (Epicadus trituberculatus), Manu Biological Station, Peru 🇵🇪