Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans

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$Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans (female with bee on Pickerelweed leaf)\nPhoto taken in Orange Co., NC in my garden on August 16, 2002.$ $Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans (female on Pickerelweed leaf)\nPhoto taken in Orange Co., NC in my garden on August 16, 2002.$ $Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans (male on Pickerelweed flowers)\nPhoto taken in Orange Co., NC in my garden on August 16, 2002.$ $Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans\nMale on top courting the female below.\nPhoto taken in Orange Co., NC in my garden on August 16, 2002.$ $Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans\nMale on top courting the female below.\nPhoto taken in Orange Co., NC in my garden on August 16, 2002.$ $Green Linx Spider, Peucetia viridans\nMale on a Blazingstar flower with a Cloudless Sulphur butterfly it captured.\nPhoto taken in Croatan National Forest in Craven Co., NC on August 24, 2002.$

This pretty green spider is a flower stalker and you can be sure it will capture anything that lands on the flower it waits on.