This morning Retta saw a wolf spider taking a dip in the swimming pool, and Retta, true to form, scooped up the spider with a skimmer net in order to save it from a possible drowning death.
Upon further examination, Retta discovered that this wolf spider was a momma. Indeed, you can see from the photograph above that momma spider has a host of babies perched, papoose style, on her back. I don’t think that I have ever seen this occurance before, or if I have, I did not know what I was witnessing at the time.
cool…
amazing, what an interesting photo. lucky you to have captured that shot,
Good photo. I have not seen a spider mom with a brood like this, but I have seen a scorpion carrying around a bunch of babies. Unfortunately I didn’t get a photo of that.
Wow. Neat. I found a wolf spider at the local zoo and got a picture, but your picture is just awesome.
Phenomenal! I’ve heard of this, but have never seen anything like this before. So glad I came across this. Although I must confess I got a severe case of the creepy crawlies while viewing
I have those all over my shed. The adults are really poisonous too, but they are pretty cool to look at, especially if you get a shot like this.