Mother's precious cargo
A tiny mother wolf spider with her precious cargo.
Wolf spiders do not build conventional webs and are wandering hunters - so to be able to continue hunting and eating, Mama carries her egg sac around with her, attached to the rear of her abdomen with silk.
Inside her egg sac, all her little babies are developing. When they are born, they will ride on her back until their first moult, then leave to make their own way in the world.
Fascinating and wonderfully impressive maternal care from this beautiful little arachnid.
Genus Artoriopsis.
Body length 7 mm
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Mother's precious cargo
A tiny mother wolf spider with her precious cargo.
Wolf spiders do not build conventional webs and are wandering hunters - so to be able to continue hunting and eating, Mama carries her egg sac around with her, attached to the rear of her abdomen with silk.
Inside her egg sac, all her little babies are developing. When they are born, they will ride on her back until their first moult, then leave to make their own way in the world.
Fascinating and wonderfully impressive maternal care from this beautiful little arachnid.
Genus Artoriopsis.
Body length 7 mm
© All rights reserved.