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Arachnid Lawn Wolf Spider preying on grasshopper, HSBC Trail, Singapore.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Superfamily: Lycosoidea
Family Lycosidae,
Lawn Wolf Spider
Hippasa holmerae Thorell 1895
I finally found this listing in the Spider Book published in Singapore. But there were record elsewhere that said the Wolf Spider could be mixed up with the Funnelweb Spider. So may be I still need the expert to confirm.
She is about 0.7 cm long.
I shot these photographs in the morning. The spiders were perching somewhere in the middle of their horizontally laid out web. They weaved their webs flat on the grass. Perhaps it was due to their horizontal spread that countless droplets of morning dew were trapped in them. They sparkled like diamonds under close scrutiny of my 100mm macro lens. I was awed and almost stopped breathing, holding still to capture them in their natural state.
We counted at least ten of these web. They look whiter early in the morning and turned more transparent as the water droplets evaporated when it reached noon. Somehow, they did not seems likely to feed on grasshopper except this one. There is a tunnel like hole at the centre of the web and that was where the spider hid himself when he encountered danger. The attack on the grasshopper was swift, about 3-4 encounter and the grasshopper slumped onto the web and the spider carried it into the tunnel and disappeared. However, when we went back about an hour later, he was up on the web again, still carrying the prey in his mouth. We notice that the grasshopper had its abdomen stripped off the outer layer. I wonder whether this spider eat or suck the body fluid from its prey.
Arachnid Lawn Wolf Spider preying on grasshopper, HSBC Trail, Singapore.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Superfamily: Lycosoidea
Family Lycosidae,
Lawn Wolf Spider
Hippasa holmerae Thorell 1895
I finally found this listing in the Spider Book published in Singapore. But there were record elsewhere that said the Wolf Spider could be mixed up with the Funnelweb Spider. So may be I still need the expert to confirm.
She is about 0.7 cm long.
I shot these photographs in the morning. The spiders were perching somewhere in the middle of their horizontally laid out web. They weaved their webs flat on the grass. Perhaps it was due to their horizontal spread that countless droplets of morning dew were trapped in them. They sparkled like diamonds under close scrutiny of my 100mm macro lens. I was awed and almost stopped breathing, holding still to capture them in their natural state.
We counted at least ten of these web. They look whiter early in the morning and turned more transparent as the water droplets evaporated when it reached noon. Somehow, they did not seems likely to feed on grasshopper except this one. There is a tunnel like hole at the centre of the web and that was where the spider hid himself when he encountered danger. The attack on the grasshopper was swift, about 3-4 encounter and the grasshopper slumped onto the web and the spider carried it into the tunnel and disappeared. However, when we went back about an hour later, he was up on the web again, still carrying the prey in his mouth. We notice that the grasshopper had its abdomen stripped off the outer layer. I wonder whether this spider eat or suck the body fluid from its prey.