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Green Lyssomanes Birth Cycle/ 05/10/2005 - Lyssomanes viridis

Green Lyssomanes Birth Cycle/ 05/10/2005 - Lyssomanes viridis
Plantation, Fort Lauderdale County, Florida, USA
May 10, 2005

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Fantastic sequence of shots!
Fantastic sequence of shots!

It was especially interesting to see how the eggs are essentially held in place beneath a silken "bed sheet". Does the female stay near by and guard them? Or does she sometimes disappear to go hunting?

-K

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