Courting Wolf Spiders by Enmos
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Thanks for viewing !! :o)
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Wolf Spider, Pardosa amentata
Female length: 5.5 - 8 mm
Male length: 5 - 6.5 mm
All wolf spiders are agile, fast-moving ground predators. This species
is brownish in colour, and males are typically darker than females,
with more distinct markings. Like all spiders they have four pairs of
legs. In front of the walking legs there is also a pair of leg-like
palps, which are used in males for sperm storage; in spotted wolf spider
males, these palps are black and covered in dark hairs. On the head there
are eight eyes arranged in three rows; the first row comprises four small
eyes, the second contains two larger eyes and the third row has two
medium-sized eyes. This wolf spider does not make a web, but hunts its
prey during the day by sight, chasing insects and leaping on them. Males
reach maturity from spring to mid-summer and can be seen performing
courtship displays to females on sunny days, waving the palps in a specific
'routine'. The female lays her eggs soon after mating and carries them
around in a silk cocoon attached to her body by the spinnerets at the end
of the abdomen. After hatching, the spiderlings cling to the female's body
for around a week before they disperse.
Hope you like :o)
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Thanks for all your wonderful comments on
my last upload, "Red Mason Bee" !!
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Many thanks,
Jeroen
Comments (45)
Pierre59
Excellente macro, bravo Jeroen !!!
ebsmooth
yeaaah right.. better you then me on this one..lol!!! awesome macro shot though spiders freak me out but it's not bad looking at them like this! excellent details and as usual the color and lighting are out of this world!!! very well done!!!
Digimon
This is so amazing! It's like having the nature channel!! Awesome moment captured here! Very cool looking, but not dare I say..sexy! LOL, beauty is indeed in the eye of the bheloder!
WonderfulCreation
Just awesome that you saw this.. I captured mating "langpoot muggen" but they didn't look so nice as this.
TallPockets
Ewwwww. Creepy. But, in a good way. WINK. Most excellent work!
jacro
super macro,il faut beaucoup de patience pour prendre ce genre de sce!
logiloglu
fascinating scene. a wonderful shot. #:O)
tvernuccio
oh boy...creeepy crawlies! i can't look long!! they're SCARY!!!!!!! excellent shot!!!
nongo
NOT my favorite subject but verrrry interesting, especially about the different sized eyes!!! excellent photography as usual Jeroen!!!!!
kennyliu
Creepy, but cool shot!
danculik
good composition and DOF,but I really would retouch the branch on the left side.
sossy
wow! they are looking very dangerously and out of a horror film! but it is a fantastic detailed macro, Jeroen! ;o)))))
Margana
Truly awesome!I don't know how you find all these creatures!
Michelle A.
Love is in the air.... wonderful shot!
wackiej
Holy Cow, where have I been? This is fantastic. There is something about getting up close with a spider, they scare the crud out of me but I'm compelled to check them out up until the time the do their little spider jumping dance. Then, I'm history and if they are in the house, they are too!