Dolomedes sp

[Brian S]

I took these pics last week. Just now getting around to posting them.

 

[cacoseraph]

magic!



how did you take those pics? i would have thought the spider would jesus out of there pretty quick like

 

[Brian S]

LOL!!! I had to sneak up on it
They will let you get close to them as long as you move really slow. It is no different that sneaking up on any other wild animal

 

[orcrist]

BTW, that's a D. triton, thought if you didn't already know the species you might like to. Really nice pics, what was the size? That's an interesting color morph, a sort of transparent green.

-0rcrist

 

[Brian S]

Thanks, These specimens are about 1.5 inches. They get much bigger.

 

[orcrist]

Legspan or body? I seem to recall something about most of them being rather small in that species, but a certain population being especially large. Do you know anything about that? It might be the British species, though, I wasn't paying attention.

-0rcrist

 

[Brian S]

This would be legspan. Later this Summer I will get an adult pic to show you.

 

[Doezsha]

Those are cool,I wouldn't mind keeping a couple of these .

 

[harveythefly]

i live in southern louisiana about a block away from a nice bayou and swamp area and in the summer i catch the adults quite frequently...in fact because our winters are so mild i tend to find slings year round...they make pretty interesting pets if you can set them up with a half and half water and land vivarium...then you can offer them insects as well as feeder fish and watch the action

Harvey