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Normally, I don't post photos of subjects from this angle but this green lynx spider is striking from every angle. Photographed in Maryland.
Green Lynx Spider ~(Peucetia viridans)
Macro Monday! A Green Lynx Spider sits protectively on her egg sac. I hope I get to see these little guys hatch!
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Green Lynx Spider ~ (Peucetia viridans)
The Green Lynx Spider is an excellent ambush predator. Blending into the green of its surroundings, it waits for a meal to crawl or land nearby before moving with lightning speed to catch it.
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The green lynx spider, is a bright-green lynx spider usually found on green plants. It is the largest North American species in the family Oxyopidae. This spider is common in the southern U.S., Mexico, Central America, and in many West Indies islands, especially Jamaica. Lynx spiders are hunters specialized for living on plants. This species does not use a web to capture its prey. It pounces on its prey in a cat-like manner, which is the reason for the name lynx. It is active during the day. (Source: Wikipedia)
E-M1ii / Tamron 180mm F3.5 Macro
An lynx spider on hardenbergia flowers in the fading afternoon sun, rome st Indigenous grasslands.
I was shooting some ants on a cedar sage flower when a fuzzy patch dropped into the frame. It turned out to be this very small lynx spider...more interesting than the ants, I think...for Arachtober 29...
One of 2 very similar Green Lynx Spiders found in Madagascar
Near Le Jardin du Roy Isalo, Ranohira, Madagascar.
A beautiful green lynx spider that I photographed in Maryland. This spider was TINY, maybe 1mm long at most.
One of my favorite spiders, a beautiful green lynx spider (Peucetia viridans). They don't use a web to catch prey, but instead are ambush hunters - this one was hanging out on a sunflower waiting for visiting insects. Females especially can get fairly large, up to an inch in body length, but even at that size their great camouflage on greenery can make them hard to spot. This was a young one, not even half grown yet. I never get tired of photographing this species.
Surprising how many of these you can see if you look closely down in the weeds, in almost constant motion -
With 25 mm tube
A very small one - the kind with the black palps that make me think of boxing gloves. For Arachtober 21...
A discovery on a rose flower, was this tiny spider only millimetres in diameter. At first I though it was a jumping spider but on seeing the image enlarged it was evidentially something else. By looking up spider identification sites, I was able to find that it is a Lynx spider. Apparently these spiders do not make webs and capture tiny insects by ambush at high speed. So interesting to see what is not normally so visible.