A Ball of Joy - _TNY_4898
Unlike wolf spiders who carry their egg sac in their spinnerets, nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) like this soon-to-be-mother Pisaura mirabilis use their mouthparts instead.
Soon she will build herself a nursery web and defend here young ones when they hatch.
A shot of a very similar spider (possibly the same one) shot nearby a week and a half later with her nursery web can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/40728265953/
A Ball of Joy - _TNY_4898
Unlike wolf spiders who carry their egg sac in their spinnerets, nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) like this soon-to-be-mother Pisaura mirabilis use their mouthparts instead.
Soon she will build herself a nursery web and defend here young ones when they hatch.
A shot of a very similar spider (possibly the same one) shot nearby a week and a half later with her nursery web can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/40728265953/