Predator upon a Flower

Life History and Fitness in a Crab Spider

Douglass H. Morse

    1. Introduction

    2. Some Basic Biology

    3. Foraging Strategies

    4. Fitness Payoffs

    5. Constraints on Success

    6. Experience, Learning, and Innate Behavior

    7. Some Sensory Aspects of Substrate Choice

    8. Morphological Variation

    9. Male-female Interactions

    10. Misumena as Part of the Community

    11. Xysticus emertoni, a Cohabiting Crab Spider

    12. Conclusions and Future Directions

    References

    Index

  • Cover: Predator upon a Flower
  • A photo of the author

Douglass H. Morse is Hermon Carey Bumpus Professor of Biology, Brown University.