(Green) Lynx Spider on Telegraph Weed - tiny!
This is a striking little Lynx Spider (Oxyopidae), but is it an actual Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia) or just green? It's tiny, less than 1/4 inch long, on a flower of native (but weedy) Telegraph Weed (Heterotheca grandiflora, Asteraceae). Yeah, I should have measured the flower; I'll do it tomorrow. I suspect that is indeed a juvenile Green Lynx Spider, maybe the same Peucetia longipalpis that I showed yesterday because it has white hairs on its abdomen and those are the early ones . It's curious that I've found near-spiderlings on these flowers before, see this photo from a couple of years ago. And here they are all alone at the top of a five-foot plant that's swaying in the breeze! Arachtober 2. (San Marcos Pass, 2 October 2019)
(Green) Lynx Spider on Telegraph Weed - tiny!
This is a striking little Lynx Spider (Oxyopidae), but is it an actual Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia) or just green? It's tiny, less than 1/4 inch long, on a flower of native (but weedy) Telegraph Weed (Heterotheca grandiflora, Asteraceae). Yeah, I should have measured the flower; I'll do it tomorrow. I suspect that is indeed a juvenile Green Lynx Spider, maybe the same Peucetia longipalpis that I showed yesterday because it has white hairs on its abdomen and those are the early ones . It's curious that I've found near-spiderlings on these flowers before, see this photo from a couple of years ago. And here they are all alone at the top of a five-foot plant that's swaying in the breeze! Arachtober 2. (San Marcos Pass, 2 October 2019)