gimme a piggyback mum

Hiya to all,
I was lazin on the Rock Garden round my pond & managed to capture this spider, I've been trying to get a shot of these spiders for ages, don't know what sort they are??? but they run real fast, stop only for a sec. or two then they're off darting hither & thither. they are quite small about 4-5mm in the body, I got hundreds of em but only on the Rock Garden which faces South.
Anyway off to Garden Centre for a 'Bottle Brush' lol (Brian)
Cheers for now, have a good w'end all
Mark

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That's nice. Good shot...

Lovely capture- It's a wolf spider mum- they carry the babies about on their backs for quite a while.
Brian V.

Hiya Brian, Piscochile,
Thanks for your comments & thanks for the info Brian, shame I couldn't get closer to her eyes but I was afraid to move in case she shot off, I might try that reversed lens later on & see if I can get a good close up, must admit I've not used it since I got that Raynox Lens, the R.L. made life much easier for me.
Cheers for now
Mark

Yup, Wolf Spider. A quite tiny one, at only 4-5mm. You've done very well to capture these shots, very sharp, and excellent detail. They move very fast, always on the go.

Dave

PS Be careful, these spiders can give very nasty and painful bites and you'll feel quite sick afterwards (headache, nausea, vomiting, muscle spams etc). Like most spiders, they won't bite you unless you're really annoying them and they have no choice. Give them some room and you'll be fine.

Great capture!

Hiya all,
Phew its damn hot, thanks for all your comments remarks Etc much appreciated.
Dave I've been nipped a few times by Spiders fortunately no real lasting bad side effects, I did however have a very close shave with one of your Ozy Eastern Browns don't mind sayin it was then I realised that 'Adrenalin is brown', excuse me. I was South of Coolangatta laying on the ground near the lighthouse on 'Fingles Head' waiting to see Dolphins swimmin between the Headland & Cook Island when the incident occurred, lol lol.
Anyway cheers for now
Mark

very nice capture of a nice mommy............ if the kids stay around too long tho she'll eat them

LOL Dave he lives in the UK... never in my whole life have I ever been bitten by a spider..(and believe me i've held enough of them ).. i've had a few bigger wolf spiders try and bite me but hey just arn't strong enough to pierce our skin...
in Australia I think ALL your bugs can give a nasty bite

the nausea and sickness you describe is what they used to call tarantism ....... the 1st and original tarantula is a european wolf spider that was said to drive you mad if it bit you.... when people emigrated from europe to America they named those HUGE spiders tarantulas and the name stuck..

Ooooo...ohhh...geez...​.!!! Look at that will ya. Makes yer skin crawl. Nice shot of the wolfie and the kids but spiders give me the creeps.

MMM interesting Alan - every bit of info that I've seen on the Wolf spider (both book and web) has said the same thing - painful nasty bite with nausea/vomiting/muscle cramps etc.

As to Aussie spiders, I've been bitten by a black house spider - result was headache/nausea, wanted to vomit but didn't. My dad ended up coming in and picking me up from work and I spent the rest of the day in bed. Also been bitten by a huntsman spider that had decided that hiding in the pocket of my tracksuit pants hanging on the line to dry was a good thing. I of course went to tuck the pockets in and he/she decided that my fingers were good reasons to attack. I spent a few hours with headache/nausea, dry reached once, most of the effect was over in 3 hours, although I felt light headed for a few hours more.

Dave

I'm not saying that's not true just that i've never been bitten by a spider......... i've picked up some pretty big wolfies (which i'd recon is good reason to attack) and not once have i been bitten.
I've never even heard of anybody I know being bitten by a spider...

to quote a thing i just looked up on the net
"the bite of almost any common wolf spider—it stings sharply like a needle jab, then immediately subsides with no after-effect. The one wolf spider in the world to have a dangerous bite lives in Brazil, and only because the wound tends to become infected by bacteria later on. As for New World bird spider-tarantulas, their venom glands are small and the poison itself is no worse than that of a wasp sting. The terror of Sean Connery's James Bond notwithstanding, there is no need to fear these gentle monsters. "

here's the link to the site it's quoted from
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chemicalbro wrote:
very nice capture of a nice mommy............ if the kids stay around too long tho she'll eat them

Talk about giving your kids the boot!!!

Great pics!


I was bitten by a black widow. Nausea and vomiting don't even begin to describe that. I dehydrated from it and wound up with a horrid kidney infection on top of it.

I have hated spiders with a passion since. Been on a mission to kill everyone I encounted execept for daddy long legs and those beautiful black and yellow garden spiders. Guess I can't find a spider to take pics of now as I have killed them all off

Nice work. It didn't look like any wolf spider I'd ever seen, so I thought I'd look into it more. It appears there are QUITE a variety of them about. http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Wolf_spider has some good info. I'm used to hairier ones that are about 1.5" or so with leg span. The things you learn...