This green spider is about half an inch long (13mm) and has 3 light-colored, incomplete chevrons on the top of the pointed abdomen. Its legs have many stiff hairs on them; it has six eyes arranged in a hexagon with 2 smaller eyes further forward. The spider lives on flowers and grasses where it feeds on insects and the female attaches a silk egg sac. The green lynx spider spins long drag lines, but does not make a web. The spider in the photograph is on a swamp milkweed flower.