Green lynx spider
The green lynx spider is bright green, the same colour as the leaves it lives on. It has long legs with black spines and often a red patch between its eyes. It does not use a web. It hunts in the daytime and pounces on insects like a cat.
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Fun facts
It is called a lynx because it jumps on its prey like a wild cat.
Each egg sac can hold 25 to 600 bright orange eggs.
A mother spider can change her colour to match her background. It takes about 16 days.
Farmers like it because it eats moths that harm cotton and cabbage crops.
Most asked questions about Green lynx spider
?Does the green lynx spider spin a web?
No. It hunts on plants and pounces on insects instead.
?How big is a green lynx spider?
A female can be up to 2.2 centimetres long. Males are smaller, about 1.2 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Peucetia viridans
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Oxyopidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Oxyopidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Peucetia viridans (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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