Lynx Spider with Egg Sack

Oxyopidae; Oxyopes javanus Thorell, 1887. This Lynx Spider with its egg sac is a fairly common sight in our area. So, I am used to seeing it and make observations which I jot down in my notebook to accompany my pictures, especially if I want to check on the egg sac regularly to monitor progress. Sometimes there is a successful outcome, resulting in numerous hatchlings, but there are dangers out there and it is not uncommon to find the egg sac torn open and the eggs being consumed by ants. The female Lynx, as far as I can tell, never leaves the eggs unguarded, which means that she cannot ambush prey and often dies of starvation. If the female dies and drops to the ground, then the eggs become easy pickings for the omnipresent ants which never miss such an opportunity. It all looks horrendous when I write it down like this, but Lynx spiders have been around for a long time. So they must be doing something right.