I have extremely little information to offer, but maybe someone will know whereof I speak.
In my dog’s water bowl this morning, there was a bizarre looking bug. The only way I can think of to describe it is that it looked vaguely spiderish (and even seemed to be dangling from a strand of silk), but only appeared to have four legs. The legs, to my eyes, looked extraordinarily like tiny blades of grass - bright green, with a slight taper (wider near the body than at the ends). The body was a pale off-white color and mostly spherical.
For all intents and purposes, the thing basically looked like a tiny little egg with four blades of grass sprouting out of it. I’m certain it was actually a bug, and not a stray plant fragment.
Any ideas?
Some Crab spiders resemble your description: Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos , but they have 6 visible legs.
Don’t know of any bugs with 4 legs, but many spiders sit with pairs of legs groups together so that it might appear they have 4 legs. Here’s some examples:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=st+andrew's+cross+spider&gbv=2
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Based on the pictures there, I think it may be closely related to this: Diaea dorsata - Wikipedia
It’s not quite an exact match, but because it was a bug, I must confess to not having looked at it extremely closely. I am pretty sure it didn’t have the mark shown on the picture, but everything else seems to fit - I suppose its legs may have been positioned strangely or perhaps lost, but everything else looks pretty close.
On further reflection, I think it’s possible that the front part of its body may have been missing altogether; it may very well have been dead or close to it. Not exactly the wisest hiding place, my dog’s food bowl…
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