Flower Spider

I was weeding my flower bed and  noticed this:

 Besides the daffodil being huge... Umm... that spider is just walking around with a huge fly! How did it catch it and get it to hold still?

Crab Spider Catch by Rindercella is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This beautiful spider is called a goldenrod crab spider or sometimes a flower spider. (scientific name: Misumena vatia)
According to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology crab spiders can change color (white or yellow) depending on the flowers they hang around. Instead of making webs they ambush their prey when the insect lands on the flower. Their venom paralyzes the prey and the spider just holds onto to it until it is done eating (don't worry they can't hurt humans). Also, as their name suggests they are able to walk sideways like a crab. How cool!