Crab Spiders Nest and Young | Bob Armstrong's Nature Alaska

Crab Spiders Nest and Young shows a nest where the young have just emerged and a couple of the youngsters.
According to Predator Upon a Flower: Life History and Fitness in a Crab Spider by Douglass H Morse the female crab spiders typically make their nest in a leaf that they have folded over.
In the first part of this video you can see a thimbleberry leaf folded over and next what the nest looked like.
Nearby there were a couple of tiny crab spiders hunting. These spiders were only about 1 mm wide and probably had recently hatched.
One of them hunting on a thimbleberry flower caught a black fly.
Their emergence occurred at a perfect time as lots of tiny no-see-ums and black flies were emerging at the same time.
Both of these insects really seek blood from us so ……………………………………..