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	<title>Comments on: Southern Spiders #2: The Green Lynx</title>
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		<title>By: Matthew Sarver</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew Sarver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry for the slow reply, but no, they wouldn&#039;t be bad for your plants at all.  They are predatory, so they might actually help by eating some of the insects that might be feeding on the plants.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the slow reply, but no, they wouldn&#8217;t be bad for your plants at all.  They are predatory, so they might actually help by eating some of the insects that might be feeding on the plants.</p>
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		<title>By: bobert</title>
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		<dc:creator>bobert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i have a few of these spiders in my (medical) canabis plants over in my yard. are these spiders bad for plants?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i have a few of these spiders in my (medical) canabis plants over in my yard. are these spiders bad for plants?</p>
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		<title>By: Richard @ The Nature Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard @ The Nature Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow that sure it an amazing looking spider! I am a big spider fan but have never seen a spider like that - it looks almost alien-like with that fantastic green colouration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow that sure it an amazing looking spider! I am a big spider fan but have never seen a spider like that &#8211; it looks almost alien-like with that fantastic green colouration.</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Sarver</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew Sarver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks James!  Had I thought a little harder, I would have remembered that!  I&#039;ve always seen wolf spiders and fishing spiders carrying the egg sac.  In fact, I once had the good fortune of capturing a female fishing spider with an egg sac (to rear in captivity for a college project), then having a mantisfly emerge from the sac!  Amazing!  Thanks for the correction, and thanks for reading.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks James!  Had I thought a little harder, I would have remembered that!  I&#8217;ve always seen wolf spiders and fishing spiders carrying the egg sac.  In fact, I once had the good fortune of capturing a female fishing spider with an egg sac (to rear in captivity for a college project), then having a mantisfly emerge from the sac!  Amazing!  Thanks for the correction, and thanks for reading.</p>
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		<title>By: James C. Trager</title>
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		<dc:creator>James C. Trager</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Susan and Matthew:

A spider egg sac without the mother attached would not be that of a wolf spider. Wolf spiders carry the egg sac about attached to the mother&#039;s spinerets, and then, when the spiderlings emerge, they ride around on the mother&#039;s abdomen for a while. I&#039;ve heard several people recount that their most frightening spider encounter was stepping on a large wolf spider to kill it, only to have dozens of tiny wolf spiders flee in every direction from their oozing mother&#039;s corpse -- Good stuff for an entomo-horror flick! Anyway, without further description of the egg sac&#039;s shape and size, hard to be sure, but if the sac was flat and satiny looking, perhaps that of a gnaphosid running spider or relative.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Susan and Matthew:</p>
<p>A spider egg sac without the mother attached would not be that of a wolf spider. Wolf spiders carry the egg sac about attached to the mother&#8217;s spinerets, and then, when the spiderlings emerge, they ride around on the mother&#8217;s abdomen for a while. I&#8217;ve heard several people recount that their most frightening spider encounter was stepping on a large wolf spider to kill it, only to have dozens of tiny wolf spiders flee in every direction from their oozing mother&#8217;s corpse &#8212; Good stuff for an entomo-horror flick! Anyway, without further description of the egg sac&#8217;s shape and size, hard to be sure, but if the sac was flat and satiny looking, perhaps that of a gnaphosid running spider or relative.</p>
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		<title>By: Crafty Green poet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Crafty Green poet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what an astonishing spider!</description>
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		<title>By: Matthew Sarver</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew Sarver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Susan - I&#039;ve never seen the egg sac of this species, but from my understanding it would typically be attached to a plant or small shrub.  I expect if it was on the ground, it might be more likely to be a wolf spider, but that is just a guess!  Thanks for reading!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Susan &#8211; I&#8217;ve never seen the egg sac of this species, but from my understanding it would typically be attached to a plant or small shrub.  I expect if it was on the ground, it might be more likely to be a wolf spider, but that is just a guess!  Thanks for reading!</p>
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		<title>By: Susan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>found a yellow egg sac with small orange eggs inside on the back of a dead oak leaf on the ground.  Possible lynx pier eggs?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>found a yellow egg sac with small orange eggs inside on the back of a dead oak leaf on the ground.  Possible lynx pier eggs?</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Sarver</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew Sarver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks - wish you were there to see it with me!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks &#8211; wish you were there to see it with me!</p>
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		<title>By: Lauren Morgens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lauren Morgens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is one cool spider!  I love the top photo--the way the front two legs of the spider sort of flow straight into the &#039;fringes&#039; of the orchid.  What a picture!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is one cool spider!  I love the top photo&#8211;the way the front two legs of the spider sort of flow straight into the &#8216;fringes&#8217; of the orchid.  What a picture!</p>
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