For many years I feared spiders but once I became a gardener I became quite fond of them – provided they do not get toooo close.
My garden is filled with a really interesting spider and I ‘d like to get your help to identify it. Here is one away from its plants.
Looking online once, I found a Green Lynx spider that sounded similar to this fellow but I am just not sure.
Is this a Green Lynx spider?
You can’t see it in this picture but it has what looks like a large, powerful jaw. I would have to get really close to take that picture. I won’t be taking that picture.
In late summer, these spiders spend al their time next to egg sacs (I probably have the terminology wrong) that look like fuzzy white balls, about 1/2 inch (1 cm) diameter. When the fall winds arrive, the sacs blow apart and tiny spiders are blown all over the neighborhood.
This is where somebody tells me that these are deadly poisonous and it is a miracle that anyone in the neighborhood still survives, right?
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I think that may be a green widow. They are deadly poisonous and it is a miracle that anyone in the neighborhood still survives.
Just kidding. But nice photo…
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Believe it or not, I had to get to your “kidding” before my adrenalin subsided.
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I believe it. Spiders don’t have a good reputation…
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Hello! That does look like a Green Lynx. Does it make a web? (That would indicate our guesses were wrong.)
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I have not seen them hanging out near any webs. (There are many kinds of spiders in my yard so there are webs everywhere.)
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