Friday 24 September 2010

Wolf Spiders - Pardosa sp.

    Family - Lycosidae
    Genus - Pardosa
    Thirty-nine European species. Pardosa are the largest family
    of Wolf Spiders.
    Female feeding
    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton
    26.04.12

    Male
    Extra Mural Cemetery, Brighton
    26.04.12
    Pardosa sp. feasting on what looks like a very young Alopecosa sp.
    Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, West Sussex
    07.09.2011
    Wildlife Nature Reserve
    Tattershall Road
    Lincolnshire
    17.09.2011
    Pardosa agricola (?)
    On the bank of a pond
    Friston Forest
    East Sussex
    16.08.2011
    Loads of them sat on thistles - trailing off their silk - Gossamer.
    Known as 'Ballooning - the Aeronautical activity of Spiders.
    They can travel at a great height and over large distances'.
    BAS Member's Handbook. 
    I've not seen Lycosids do this before. I even got hit in the face by one as
    it floated off.
    Stanmer Park
    01.09.2011
    'Probably juvenile prativaga'
    Peter Harvey BAS
    Arlington Reservoir
    East Sussex
    11.08.2011
    Pevensey Marshes
    Sussex Wildlife Nature Reserve
    East Sussex
    20.08.2011
    Mating Wolf Spiders
    Back Garden, Brighton
    01.05.2011
    Stanmer Park, Brighton
    14.07.2011
    Stanmer Park, East Sussex
    25.07.2011

    Pardosa sp. (?)
    Near Burton Mill Pond
    West Sussex
    22.04.2011
    Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex
    29.03.2011
   Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, West Sussex
   06.04.2011
    Mother carrying her young
    Paid me a visit
    Maybe she wanted to send an email ...!?
    Brighton
    10.07.2011
    Warming themselves in the morning sun.
    Dulwich, London 12.03.2011
    Feeding by the pond
    She stalks the Tadpoles
    Back Garden, Brighton, East Sussex
    21/05/2010
 

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