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Dew drops make it difficult to focus stack.
Tamron 90mm + Raynox DCR-250, Natural light, 23 images stacked.
Lynx Spiders are the members of the family Oxyopidae. They all are hunting spiders that spend their lives on plants, flowers and shrubs. At least one species has been identified as exhibiting social behaviour.
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At first, I thought this lynx had a deformed eye. Then I realised that it was just water droplets that made the eye on the left look bigger. :)
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I had been watching a female green lynx spider out back for a couple months but it disappeared. I was out front yesterday checking on my much neglected front garden, and found this female with an egg sac! Can't know if it's the same spider but it was a nice find. I'm guessing within a week or two, we'll have a couple hundred baby spiders :)
These images are cropped to show detail, and there are two more views below --
Too many lynxes, so little time!
A series of five posts (see adjacent images in my photostream) dedicated to the magnificent lynx spiders of the family Oxyopidae of Pu'er, Yunnan, China.
Lynx spiders are the members of the family Oxyopidae. They all are hunting spiders that spend their lives on plants, flowers and shrubs. They approach their prey slowly then pounce, hence the common name Lynx spiders.
Oxyopidae in general rely on keen eyesight in stalking, chasing, or ambushing prey, and also in avoiding enemies. Six of their eight eyes are arranged in a hexagon-like pattern, a characteristic that identifies them as members of the family Oxyopidae. The other two eyes are smaller and generally situated in front and below the other six.
The Oxyopidae also have spiny legs, and in many species those legs, augmented by the spines, seem to be used as a sort of catching-basket in trapping flying insects.
This is a family of spider which is well represented locally in Yunnan with a fair degree of diversity. I have knowingly observed four genera - Oxyopes, Peucetia, Hamadruas and Hamataliwa. Identification to species is a little more challenging due to a scarcity of reference material.
They are very conducive to being photographed as they tend to posture defiantly in the open seemingly without fear in many cases. If they do take fright, they are capable of moving at lightning speeds, usually to the opposite side of the leaf they are on. However, a gentle wave of the hand in their general direction will return them to the original position. Usually they are reluctant to depart from their favorite haunts but will fling themselves into space if they feel particularly threatened.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
You can see all of my lynx images on Flickr HERE.
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Canon FD 24 mm 1:2.8 S.S.C on Nikon D70s + Ext Tube 20mm.
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Headlamp for focusing.
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An orange lynx spider waiting for its prey at the centre of a sunflower in my garden !!
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Some female lynx spiders guard their egg sacs and hatched offspring for up to eight weeks until the young disperse. While the primary reason for egg-guarding is likely to be protection from predators, they have also been observed releasing offspring from the egg sac when it is time for the spiderlings to emerge. One study documented vigorous defence of eggs from potential predators ranging from killing, biting, flicking predators away, and/or relocating the egg sac.
Image Is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC).