A Shocking Green Lynx Spider Picture

Goodness! Now that Fatty has her egg sac, she is no longer eating up the neighborhood’s insects. Yet nearby, another green lynx female has set up shop. Apparently, the tops of Maximilian sunflower stalks are great, green lynx spider habitat. But what is shocking here is the dang flies. Just espy all those dern flies would you, all over that unlucky bug, (Acanthocephala femorata). Crumby does not know what kind of flies those are yet. But those are the same flies that also got on Fatty’s mantis.

Goodness gracious! Do some especially miserable flies specialize on the fresh corpses or perhaps merely paralyzed bodies of large spider victims? Goodness gracious sakes alive!

Super Important Addendum!

Crumby just went back and reviewed all his green lynx spider with food item pictures. The only ones that feature flies are bugs. That is, the flies only get on the bugs that the spiders catch. Crumby was mistaken about flies on the mantis. Repeat. Flies were not on the mantis when Fatty had it or after she dropped it.

And actually, the only bugs Crumby has pictures of with flies are large. leaf-footed bugs like Leptoglossus and Acanthocephala. So apparently these flies are commensal with the spiders only when they like what the spiders are eating. By the way, the bug genera we are talking about presently are apparently rather stinky.

Which fetches Crumby up at the conclusion that these flies are members of the Family Milichiidae. How about that, a family of diptera in which the family name features four is. That’s four for the Crumby Ovate.