The Northerner - _TNY_8969
Found this female wolf spider with her egg sac attached to her spinnerets on the ground next to the grill in my mother-in-law's garden.
If I had found this one at home the identification would have anded with a female wolf spider in the Pardosa lugubris group since there are several extremely similar species which need work under heavy magnification of the genitals to tell apart.
But, since this was taken outside Härnösand, Sweden which is about 500 km north of my place we can confidently say it is a female Pardosa lugubris as the distribution of none of the other species reach this far north.
The Northerner - _TNY_8969
Found this female wolf spider with her egg sac attached to her spinnerets on the ground next to the grill in my mother-in-law's garden.
If I had found this one at home the identification would have anded with a female wolf spider in the Pardosa lugubris group since there are several extremely similar species which need work under heavy magnification of the genitals to tell apart.
But, since this was taken outside Härnösand, Sweden which is about 500 km north of my place we can confidently say it is a female Pardosa lugubris as the distribution of none of the other species reach this far north.