Green Lynx

[wendell]

 

[SkittlesTheJumpingSpider]

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Great picture, thanks for sharing!

 

[wendell]

Great picture, thanks for sharing!

Thanks! Glad you liked it! I am weak on identification, but I get to see lots of spiders on the job and enjoy sharing them with people who enjoy them.

 

[viper69]

Never seen one yet

 

[darkness975]

I got a sling as a freebie. Unfortunately it never ate and passed on.

 

[The Snark]

The setae on those legs is an incredibly sophisticated sensory apparatus, They are able to pinpoint locate prey on the other side of a leaf or flower petal then zoom on over and glomp it. Amazing to watch them.

 

[wendell]

The setae on those legs is an incredibly sophisticated sensory apparatus, They are able to pinpoint locate prey on the other side of a leaf or flower petal then zoom on over and glomp it. Amazing to watch them.

I see a lot of them in late summer in peanut fields. Your description of how they hunt reminds me of how many references there are in the literature about them having a painful bite. I remain blissfully ignorant; I don’t handle them.

 

[The Snark]

how they hunt reminds me of how many references there are in the literature about them having a painful bite

Try to keep things in context. Of the bites I've had from the most painful and extent of damage and long term effect.
Rattler. Exponential agony. Triggered long term hypersensitivity to bee and ant stings.
Cat bite. Pasturella Multocida infection that went systemic. 2 weeks in the hospital.
Horse. Still have a hematoma like bruise 40 years later.
Dogs. The old 5 rabies shots into the lining of my stomach was memorable.
Hornets. Not wearing a shot clearing brush and disturbed a nest. Whammed 200-300 times.
Human. Nasty multiple infectors and 2 month course of antibiotics.
Goat. Got my privates.
Tokay lacerations and maybe a couple dozen others on down to a black widow bite. Pin prick. Gave me a permanent wart a year after the bite.

 

[wendell]

Try to keep things in context. Of the bites I've had from the most painful and extent of damage and long term effect.
Rattler. Exponential agony. Triggered long term hypersensitivity to bee and ant stings.
Cat bite. Pasturella Multocida infection that went systemic. 2 weeks in the hospital.
Horse. Still have a hematoma like bruise 40 years later.
Dogs. The old 5 rabies shots into the lining of my stomach was memorable.
Hornets. Not wearing a shot clearing brush and disturbed a nest. Whammed 200-300 times.
Human. Nasty multiple infectors and 2 month course of antibiotics.
Goat. Got my privates.
Tokay lacerations and maybe a couple dozen others on down to a black widow bite. Pin prick. Gave me a permanent wart a year after the bite.

Creatures, and in at least one case a human, must find you immensely irritating for so many to have bitten you. As for an admonishment to “try to keep things in context”, I am 61 and despite having worked in the fields since I was 15 I have never been bitten by any spider. I was complimenting you on connecting the dots between an unusually high amount of bite information on a harmless creature and the way it finds and captures food.

 

[The Snark]

Creatures, and in at least one case a human, must find you immensely irritating

Lots and lots of different jobs and varying life experiences. And I'm a risk taker. Comes with the territory.
Yesterday, wife yells, "DON'T..."
But I already grabbed it and had the tokay sawing away on my finger.

Plus side, I'm something of an expert on rendering self applied first aid. Lots of practice.

 

[darkness975]

Try to keep things in context. Of the bites I've had from the most painful and extent of damage and long term effect.
Rattler. Exponential agony. Triggered long term hypersensitivity to bee and ant stings.
Cat bite. Pasturella Multocida infection that went systemic. 2 weeks in the hospital.
Horse. Still have a hematoma like bruise 40 years later.
Dogs. The old 5 rabies shots into the lining of my stomach was memorable.
Hornets. Not wearing a shot clearing brush and disturbed a nest. Whammed 200-300 times.
Human. Nasty multiple infectors and 2 month course of antibiotics.
Goat. Got my privates.
Tokay lacerations and maybe a couple dozen others on down to a black widow bite. Pin prick. Gave me a permanent wart a year after the bite.

Which species of Latrodectus?

 

[The Snark]

Which species of Latrodectus?

Hesperus. Southern California, 1970, in a vent of a crawl space under an apartment building. Poison control advised rubbing moist baking soda on the bite area and observe watch-for symptoms for 24 hours.

 

[darkness975]

Hesperus. Southern California, 1970, in a vent of a crawl space under an apartment building. Poison control advised rubbing moist baking soda on the bite area and observe watch-for symptoms for 24 hours.

It wasn't as bad as the old wives tales I assume. I have a bunch of hesperus, mactans, and some hasselti. Not planning to get bit but it's good to hear testimonies in any case.

Bites vary depending on species and amount of venom injected (sometimes none in the case of a dry bite) so I'm always interested in others' experiences.