Giant lynx spider with egg-sac?!!
October 5, 2009
Hi,
I found this HUGE lynx spider at my aunts house last week. It was guarding what looked like an egg sac. The spider was about an inch long, with large mandibles, and big, hairy legs. The egg sac was about half the size of a gum ball, but shaped like a gumdrop, with a flat bottom and a domed top. The outside was golden brown, and looked like curly wool. I thought you guys would like to see these pictures since you don’t have any showing an egg sac. I hope you enjoy these shots. Keep up the good work.
Josh Kouri
Green Lynx Spider with Egg Sac
Hi Josh,
Thanks so much for sending in your photos of a Green Lynx Spider with its egg sac. We actually have images buried in our archives of female Green Lynx Spiders guarding their eggs.
Green Lynx Spider guarding Egg Sac
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Posted 06 October 2009
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Green Lynx sharing Hummingbird feeder
September 1, 2009
I live in central Gerogia and have Green Lynxs in my garden. Recently I saw this one perched on a bird feeder. Even as the hummingbird feeds, the spider stays true to the hunt. I hope you enjoy!
SJ
Lizella, GA
Green Lynx Spider and Hummingbird at feeder
Hi SJ,
Your letter is the third awesome Green Lynx image we are posting today. It is our experience that Green Lynx Spiders are attracted to pink and red flowers where they wait to ambush pollinating insects. We doubt that this Green Lynx could capture the Hummingbird, but we posted several images a few years ago of a Golden Orbweaver that had captured a Hummingbird in its web. There is also a photo on the internet of a Golden Silk Spider that captured a Mannikin Finch in Australia.
Green Lynx Spider on Hummingbird Feeder
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Posted 01 September 2009
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Totally necessary carnage (lynx spider)
September 1, 2009
Hi! I just thought you might like to see this neat lynx spider who was devastating the fly population on my garbage can. Thanks for the site…it comes in useful for me all the time!!
Andrea
San Diego
Green Lynx eats Green Bottle Flies
Hi Andrea,
Your subject line caught our attention and made us cringe. We are thrilled to see that once we opened your email, you misidentified the term carnage. Your photo of a Green Lynx Spider feeding on Green Bottle Flies belongs in Food Chain. Unnecessary Carnage is reserved for human instigated killing of insects and other creatures. So often, Green Lynx Spiders, our favorite spider species, feed on pollinating insects. It is a refreshing change to see them feeding on pestiferous species.
Green Lynx Lunch
August 31, 2009
I know that this is a green lynx with a moth, but I thought the picture was a good one. Everyone I show it to says something like “ewwww, or thanks for the nightmares” so I thought I’d show it to someone who would appreciate it. 
I also snapped a shot of her boyfriend who was a couple leaves away from her on the rosebush.
Kelli the spider lover
San Marcos (San Diego County) CA
Green Lynx Spider eats Hairstreak Butterfly
Dear Kelli the spider lover,
The prey in your photo is actually one of the Hairstreak Butterflies and not a moth. Green Lynx Spiders do not build a web to capture prey, but rather ambush flying insects from a tall perch, like a blossom on a rose bush.
Green Lynx Spider
Green Lynx Spider
August 5, 2009
I think this is a green lynx spider. Its my first time seeing one. I found it on my kid’s sunflower. I am kind of new at this.
Chris Morris
Conroe, Tx
Green Lynx Spider catches small Bee
Hi Chris,
Thanks for doing the research to identify the Green Lynx Spider in your wonderful photograph. Green Lynx Spiders are our own favorite spiders despite their habit of waiting on blossoms for pollinating insects like the Bee that has been captured by your individual. Once, many years ago, we witnessed a Green Lynx Spider jump a foot from a rose that it was perched upon in an attempt to catch a passing butterfly. Though the spider missed its mark, it was impressive nonetheless.
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Posted 06 August 2009
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Food Chain of Events
Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Hi guys,
It appears these two small flys were having an argument and didn’t notice the lynx spider coming to make a meal of both. One of the flys looks like a common long legged fly but the bright blue one is a new one for me. It appears to have two large forward facing eyes, reminiscent of a jumping spider, set into a metallic looking carapace. Strange one eh?
aussietrev
Queensland, Australia
Lynx Spider gets Two-fer
Hi Trevor,
Your photos always amuse us. This tangle of bodies is quite wonderful. Seems as though the Spider got a double meal, though it is uncertain that is will suck the fluids from both flies.
Lynx Spider eats two flies
Green Lynx with Bee
Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM
I found this photo from last August on my camera. Taken near Charlotte, NC.
This is a Green Lynx eating what I think is a Carpenter Bee.
It must be their favorite catch as there already is a picture of this on your site.
Great site,
Bob
Cornelius , NC, USA
Green Lynx eats Carpenter Bee
Hi Bob,
Maybe you never had a chance to print your photo of a healthy female Green Lynx Spider feeding on a Carpenter Bee, but at least it is now online for the world to view. Green Lynx spiders often wait for prey by perching on blossoms, so they eat many pollinating insects.
Green lynx spider eats bumble bee
Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:35 AM
Hi Bugman. Maybe this is the true reason for the bee shortage. We saw this food chain demonstration while hiking Moss Park in Orlando, Fl. on Nov.1st. The sun was setting and so we also saw gorgeous orb weavers busy spinning their webs. None of my past submissions have been posted so since this is your favorite spider, I hope my photo will make it to your website. By the way, I impressed my husband when I blurted out “oh, that’s a green lynx spider”! (just a little identifcation I picked up from my visits to your site). Thanks for the great website.
Elizabeth from Orlando
Orlando, Fl.
Green Lynx Spider eats Bumble Bee
Hi Elizabeth,
What a marvelous photo of our favorite spider, the Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia viridans.
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Posted 06 November 2008
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