Cool Facts About The Green Lynx Spider

• The Green Lynx Spider has a bright, translucent green coloured body with red spots, which help the Spider blend into its environment
  
• Although they do not build webs, they will spin a silk dragline as they hunt between leaves of plants
• The Green Lynx Spider is unique since they are capable of slowly changing their colour to properly match the vegetation on which they live

The Cat-Like Spider

Unlike most other spiders, the Green Lynx Spider does not build webs to capture its prey.   Instead, they prefer to hunt in bushes and plants and will occasionally lie in wait to ambush their unsuspecting prey.  In fact, they may derive the “Lynx” portion of their name from their unique ability to pounce prey in the same fashion as the famous cat.

Because they do not build webs to trap prey, the Green Lynx Spider must have incredible eyesight and accompanying dexterity to ambush potential food sources.  As insects fly by these Spiders, they leap into the air to catch their meal.  These clever spiders are known to camp near beautiful flowers.   As insects arrive to pollinate the flower, the Green Lynx Spider uses its speed and agility to pounce on the unsuspecting prey.

Since this particular spider is a plant dweller, they do not pose much of a risk to humans; however, they may bite if accidentally disrupted.  Aside from pain and swelling, their bites are harmless to humans.

Orange Eggs and Ham

The female Green Lynx Spider will create one to four 2 cm long egg sacs, containing between 25 to 600 bright orange eggs.  Once the eggs are secured in the egg sac, the mother will hang directly above the sac while hugging it with her legs.   This position allows her to guard and valiantly protect her egg sac against any potential predators.  Hatching in approximately two weeks, the eggs produce fully functional spiders, which emerge from the sac in an additional two weeks.  After leaving the safety of the sac, these newborn spiders must now hunt and fend for themselves. I guess they don’t really ease them into real life, now do they?