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Green Lynx spider

Peucetia viridans

Photo by LuisStevens
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Field Notes

Description:

Green Lynx spider with its egg sac. The female constructs one to five 2-centimeter (0.8 in) egg sacs in September and October, each containing 25 to 600 bright orange eggs, which she guards, usually hanging upside down from a sac and attacking everything that comes near.

Habitat:

Plants in a mostly shrubs area.

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Green lynx spider

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