Hi,
New user to this forum here and have been told that this is best place to raise our query.
We are a conservation group on the Herts/Essex border and we observed this delightful character,hiding on a nettle leaf, acting true to description, in June 2012 on the border of scrub and a wildflower meadow. We published a local pictorial guide and named the specimen as Goldenrod Crab Spider- Misumena Vatia we were then challenged locally and told we had got the labeling wrong and that it was a Common Crab Spider- Misumena Vatia Our efforts to clarify from online and other guides have only added to our confusion. From the two pictures supplied/uploaded can you help us with getting this right. Thank you in anticipation. Joseph Fitzgerald