First spider for 2016

Along with the handful of bluebonnets I saw in Cedar Park on February 25th I also photographed a ring of prairie verbena flowers, Glandularia bipinnatifida, that a crab spider had claimed as its domain. The arachnophiles (or at least not arachnophobes) among you may click the excerpt below for a closer look.

© 2016 Steven Schwartzman