Location is Important - _TNY_8968S2
I am able to say this is a Pardosa lugubris wolf spider, even if there are at least two other species in Sweden which look pretty much exactly the same.
This is because this was shot at my mother-in-law's summer house outside Härnösand, Sweden.
This is almost exactly 50 kilometers (310 miles in freedom units) north of where I live and roughly as far north as Anchorage, Alaska and that is too far north for the other species - ergo, this is P. lugubris.
The white pebble under her abdomen is her eggsac. Since wolf spiders don't build webs (with some rare exceptions) she carries her eggs around attached to her spinnerets like this and when te eggs hatch, all the tiny spiderlings will crawl up on her abdomen and stay there for a couple of days, enjoying mom's protection before dispersing.
This one stayed still for me long enought to be able to take two shots with different parts in focus so I could feed them into Zerene Stacker and stack them for some increased DoF.
I actually managed to photograph a web-building wolf spider while on vacation in Thailand a few years back. Here's a lawn wolf spider (Hippasa holmerae) in its web: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/16254397694/
Location is Important - _TNY_8968S2
I am able to say this is a Pardosa lugubris wolf spider, even if there are at least two other species in Sweden which look pretty much exactly the same.
This is because this was shot at my mother-in-law's summer house outside Härnösand, Sweden.
This is almost exactly 50 kilometers (310 miles in freedom units) north of where I live and roughly as far north as Anchorage, Alaska and that is too far north for the other species - ergo, this is P. lugubris.
The white pebble under her abdomen is her eggsac. Since wolf spiders don't build webs (with some rare exceptions) she carries her eggs around attached to her spinnerets like this and when te eggs hatch, all the tiny spiderlings will crawl up on her abdomen and stay there for a couple of days, enjoying mom's protection before dispersing.
This one stayed still for me long enought to be able to take two shots with different parts in focus so I could feed them into Zerene Stacker and stack them for some increased DoF.
I actually managed to photograph a web-building wolf spider while on vacation in Thailand a few years back. Here's a lawn wolf spider (Hippasa holmerae) in its web: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/16254397694/