Spider Eating Beetle - _TNY_5630
A female common lugubrious wolf-spider (Pardosa lugubris) eating some sort of small beetle.
There are several closely related species which look almost identical, but since the only one with a distribution as far north as Härnösand, Sweden, where this was taken, the ID is certain.
I initially though it was the same spider as this one: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53206126815/ which I shot the minute before or after, but then I noticed they had different kinds of pray so it has to be two separate specimens.
Spider Eating Beetle - _TNY_5630
A female common lugubrious wolf-spider (Pardosa lugubris) eating some sort of small beetle.
There are several closely related species which look almost identical, but since the only one with a distribution as far north as Härnösand, Sweden, where this was taken, the ID is certain.
I initially though it was the same spider as this one: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53206126815/ which I shot the minute before or after, but then I noticed they had different kinds of pray so it has to be two separate specimens.