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