Larger, Pt. 8 - _TNY_0518

Every summer in my mother-in-law's garden outside Härnösand, Sweden, I keep finding juvenile raft spiders (Dolomedes fimbriatus).

 

Just once in all the year's I've been there have I found an adult one though - which is a shame as they are about as large as spiders in Sweden get which always makes for cool shots.

 

This female, which jumped out of a corn/maize plant on the patio when my wife was watering it might be the closest to adult after that though.

 

Unlike the wolf spiders we find there all the time, she wasn't at all interested in running down in the gaps between the planks and just stayed still - which I of course immediately took advantage of and snapped away with the camera.

 

This is an uncropped 50 megapixel shot so you should be able to zoom in quite a lot and see some nice detail on those eyes.

 

Part 1, more from the front, can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52285411716/

 

Part 2, from the side, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52499545556/

 

Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52600253426/

 

Part 4 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52992806392/

 

Part 5 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53217785666/

 

Part 6 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53934101075/

 

Part 7 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53506374438/

Done