Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)
Lynx spiders get their name from the way that they sometimes pounce
on their prey in a catlike fashion. These spiders spend their time
hunting for insects in bushes and low plants. They are fast runners,
but can occasionally be seen lying in wait for prey beside flowers.
They build no web for prey capture, but they do release a silk
dragline as they hunt among leaves.
Look For: Bright green, cream, or tan body; legs are yellow with
black spines.
Length: 5/8".
Habitat: Fields, woods.
Range: Southern U.S.
Bite: While the Green Lynx spider aggressively attacks its insect
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6 September, 2010:
Hi Glenn,
Can you tell me what kind of spider this one is? I found him on the hibiscus tree eating this yellow jacket. He's pretty big!
Thanks,
Linda
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23 August, 2010:
Thanks for your site. It was helpful identifying the critter below hanging out on my garage door. Glad it didn't jump on me as I took the photo.
-Helen, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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14 August, 2010:
While visiting Del Rio Texas last week, I came across this interesting looking spider. I have not been able to identify it and wondered if you might be able to. Thank you so much for your time.
Barbie Fort Worth, TX
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8 August, 2010:
Dr. Glen,
I found this spider in my house in Tulsa, OK. It was around 1cm in size. I would appreciate any help you could give me in identifying it.
Don
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31 July, 2010:
Hello,
I was trying to look on the web to see what kind of spider this is, and I can not tell. I came across your site and decided to email you to see if you knew.
All day at work today I felt something around my neck and in my shirt, I thought that it was just a string of my hair, so I was trying to find it and kept on brushing it off. Then finally I looked down and saw this spider on on my desk....so I know I finally brushed him off of me and on my desk. Kind of creepy, but I do not know much about spiders.
Thanks,
Sarah -- Crosby, TX
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10 July, 2010:
I was following a deer and her fawn with my camera through a field last summer in Norris, TN. The weed and brush was up to 7ft.high in areas. I saw this beautiful spider just seconds before my face brushed into it's perch. It was the small egg sac dangling that caught my eye. I had to really look hard to see it. Since I took the picture I have looked for it to find out what kind it was. Thanks to this website I was able to identify my spider. The Green Lynx Spider. Thanks!
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Your brother in Christ,
James
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5 December, 2009:
Hi Glen I'm also tossing in some shots of green lynx spiders, with dinner, and with offspring.
They live on my roses, and keep the aphids at bay.
I've been living peacefully in harmony with them for several years.
The pix people have sent you, of the spiders all curled up after people have sprayed them make me sad.
Too bad they couldn't have taken them outside.
Peace~ Trish;
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More of Trish's photos may be seen at
http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n43/trishrg/Green%20Lynx%20Spider/ |
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2 December, 2009:
I found this beauty while hiking in Thousand Oaks CA.
MC
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2 December, 2009:
Your site helped me ID this spider. Thought maybe you would want the pics I took.
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16 November, 2009:
I HOPE YOU CAN USE SOME OF MY PICTURES ON YOUR WEBSITE!
MC
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3 October, 2009:
Can you help me identify this spider? It was found near Los Angeles, Ca.
Thanks,
Rachel
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5 September, 2009:
Payson, Arizona, USA.
Green Lynx was in my garage on a chair I was moving. Felt a web and looked to see it on the chair. Please use pics for your site, which, by the way, is the most fascinating site I've come across to help ID spiders!
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23 August, 2009:
Hello. Perhaps you might be interested in a few of my
photos to add to your collection. They are, perhaps, nothing spectacular, but they are a bit different. I'll try to describe them in the order of attachment
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Live spiders, all from Ann Arbor, MI, USA: a brown lynx spider. Yours sincerely,
David
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3 August, 2009:
Here is a green lynx spider on a Canna Lily flower. I thought the
color contrast was great. Taken in Angier, NC.Click for a larger view. |
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16 July, 2009:
Glen,
I live in Central Florida where I frequently find my lynx friends out and about in my garden.Enclosed is a close up of a lynx on my sunflower. I love your site, every time I find a "new to me" spider in my home or yard I'm on here trying to find out what it is. Thanks so much.
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10 May, 2009:
Can you help me identify this spider. It is only ¼ long, green and if you look close there is a star shape on it’s head. I found it on a Magnolia flower.
Thanks,
Jay Nall
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16 February, 2009:
Hi Glen,
Please find attached, a shot of a Green Lynx Spider that I took at the Carleen Bright Arboretum in Waco, TX. while I was photographing flowers. You are welcome to use it on your website if you would like.
David
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November, 2008:
Here are nice pictures I found outside my house in SOUTH AFRICA Meyerton.
You can use them for you site if you wish.
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25 October, 2008:
These were taken in our side yard in Temecula, CA. A few days later, the babies came out of the ball under the lavender flower she is sitting on.
Best regards,
Mark
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