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Caption: Lynx Spider Story & photos : Vinny Chirayil
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Caption: Striped Lynx Spider
hanging upside down on
its egg sac, guarding it.
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Caption: They don't make webs
except for hanging the egg sac. They sometimes leave a thread of web while leaping, a safety feature I guess.
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Caption: The arrangement of their 8 eyes is unique to their species, giving it excellent vision.
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Caption: A big sac like this can have
as many as 600 babies !
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Caption: Birds and ants are a common threat for the protective mother at this stage.
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Caption: Lynx spiders are mobile, ambush hunters & get
the name for their Lynx
(wild cat) like hunting style.
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Caption: INDIA I CLICKED THESE PICS IN MUMBAI IN 2003 AND THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED ONLINE TILL NOW.
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Caption: SANJAY GANDHI NATIONAL PARK (SGNP)
IMAGE : COMMONFLOOR.COM Mumbai
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Caption: Sanjay Gandhi National Park
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Caption: These tall grass blades are home to many lynx spiders, which build their egg sacs on webs spun between them.
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Caption: Army of spiderlings
around their own version
of the White House.
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Caption: These babies hatch from
eggs in around 2 weeks
and live upto a year.
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Caption: All photos were shot with an ordinary Kodak 3 megapixel camera, mainly in macro mode.
photo--paint.blogspot.com
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Caption: Within 24 hrs of
Steller liking the story.
Published - June 30, 2016
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Caption: Statistics by Day 3
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