Beautiful

shrxhky420

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A HUGE mama spider carrying her babies on her thorax crossing the trail while walking the dog.. about the size of a tarantula, no joke:



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Poop bag for scale lol:

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What you captured there is a wolf spider. What's really really cool about the first pic, is you captured several dozen spiders in the pic maybe more.
Zoom in on the thorax... you'll see that mama wolf spider carries her babies on her back. Had you really disturbed her, they all would have scattered


Edit: I guess I should have read your post instead of just replying

SH420
 

ColoradoHighGrower

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What you captured there is a wolf spider. What's really really cool about the first pic, is you captured several dozen spiders in the pic maybe more.
Zoom in on the thorax... you'll see that mama wolf spider carries her babies on her back. Had you really disturbed her, they all would have scattered


Edit: I guess I should have read your post instead of just replying

SH420
Yeah, we tried to persuade her to continue across the trail quickly by poking her butt with a piece of grass. When a few babies hopped off though, we realized that's what was going on, so left her be....
 

BudmanTX

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very rare for something like this to happen 3 Hurricanes in the Atlantic....wow....

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the first being Florence a cata 4 now, estimates believe she will rize to a Cat 5, if she does, my prayers are with the people along the southern atlantic coastal areas...as we in Texas have learned from Harvey....don't underestimate this storm like this....please....if u can, get out, or if you stay....alway help your neighbor and the people in the community, as we did in time of need......you can too....here is a current picture from NASA and NOAA......
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BudmanTX

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That first one looks like Andy Goldsworthy ... and yet not quite. Andy makes nature-based "ephemeral art" and this looks like a student of his did that. If I haven't done an Andy Goldsworthy post here ... I'll do one soon. I love his work.

i haven't seen his work, should be a hell of a post.....
 
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