It's Dangerous to Be a Pollinator
A photo series. Images Copyright 2001, David L. Green   Unauthorized use prohibited

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Possibly the Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans  For more info on this spider  Also the third and sixth images below.
September 14,2001   Hemingway, SC  USA

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Well camoflaged Crab Spider (tentative ID, Misumena vatia)  October, 2000   Hemingway, SC  USA

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Male Bombus pennsylvanicus victim    Manning, SC  USA  9-10-01

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Cisseps fulvicollis, yellow collared scape moth, victim   9-14-01   Hemingway, SC  USA
Not a spider but an ambush bug, possibly Phymata (family Phymatidae-sometimes included with Reduviidae)
  More on Phymatidae (FL)   Nice Pics from Raphael Carter

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Crab Spider and Bombus impatiens victim   9-14-01   Hemingway, SC  USA

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Polistes metricus  wasp victim   9-14-01    Hemingway, SC  USA
And to think there are wasps that prey on spiders!

Arachnology: The Study of Spiders
A Guide to Missouri Spiders
Good Bug, Bad Bug: Crab Spiders

Do spiders pollinate?  Quite possibly they do some, especially with self fertile flowers:
Spider pollinators for orchids

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