Green Lynx Spider on her egg case
This is a mama Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia, Oxyopidae) guarding on her egg case in a flowering plant of native Bird's Beak (Cordylanthus rigidus, Orobanchaceae). If you look close at her spinnerets, maybe you can see that she really has six of them - four larger ones towards her head, bur also a pair of smaller ones behind, the "posterior median spinnerets". Compare this photo. She really is guarding her eggs. I tried nudging her a bit with a stick to better show her back, and the more I nudged the more she hugged her egg sack! I let her be. I hope she's still here when I get back from Oregon - in Arachtober! (San Marcos Pass, 10 September 2017)
Green Lynx Spider on her egg case
This is a mama Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia, Oxyopidae) guarding on her egg case in a flowering plant of native Bird's Beak (Cordylanthus rigidus, Orobanchaceae). If you look close at her spinnerets, maybe you can see that she really has six of them - four larger ones towards her head, bur also a pair of smaller ones behind, the "posterior median spinnerets". Compare this photo. She really is guarding her eggs. I tried nudging her a bit with a stick to better show her back, and the more I nudged the more she hugged her egg sack! I let her be. I hope she's still here when I get back from Oregon - in Arachtober! (San Marcos Pass, 10 September 2017)