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found on succulent leaf of a plant originally kept low to the ground on the patio, out of direct sun. photographed with new web structure (eggs?) one day after moving plant up into open air.
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- Submitted: Aug 4, 2020
- Photographed: Aug 3, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Low foliage (shrubs, herbs, garden, excluding flowers)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi there! This is indeed an egg sac, and your spider is a female Oxyopes scalaris, the Western Lynx Spider*. Lynx spiders are very dedicated mothers. Here is a quote from a BugGuide.net article** about them:
“Some oxyopids may produce several egg sacs, while others only one. Lynx [spiders] are very protective of their egg sacs, guarding them avidly. Many will not eat while guarding eggs, and often die of starvation as a result.”
*Western Lynx Spider:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/295766
**Oxyopidae:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1965
thanks! that definitely looks & sounds right, and when I got closer I could clearly make out the hairs on the legs that I had missed before.
You are very welcome! 🙂