This Wolf Spider and the one below were both in my garden on the same day carrying their egg sacs. © Carol Davis, 6-19-2008
Not only does this Wolf Spider mother have the burden of carrying her children in a sac outside her body like
a load of laundry, but this particular mother has also lost a leg. That's gotta be exhausting! Of course, it's
one less gam to shave. To add insult to injury, when her spiderlings hatch, they ride around on her back like a
large family packed into an old 1956 station wagon--with gangly arms and legs sticking out all over (you've
got to be older than dirt to conjure up that image). It's a really scary sight for Arachnophobes (and so is
seeing the wolf spider with all those babies!) © Carol Davis, 6-19-2008
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