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🚨 ARTHROPOD OF THE DAY 🚨
The green lynx spider is a big, bright green ghost of the garden, often fading into the foliage and flowers as it prowls for insects. It lives across most of the southern U.S. from coast to coast, as well as Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. It's North America's largest lynx spider, a mostly tropical family of arachnids named for their cat-like speed and agility.
The green lynx inhabits a variety of low shrubs and herbaceous plants, gravitating near the top of vegetation in open habitats like meadows, prairies, farms, and gardens.
The green lynx spider is an ambush hunter, often lurking on leaves or flowers and pouncing when an insect comes near to feed on nectar.
Despite their aggressive nature when hunting or defending their brood, green lynx spiders seldom bite people, even in places like Florida where both the spiders and humans are abundant, according to the IFAS. In rare cases when a person is bitten and envenomated, the venom causes only local pain, itching, redness, and swelling.