Has anyone seen this picture before?

[Snipes]

Its a wolf spider. I found it in an animal book i have. I dont think it has been tampered with. It just looks so soulful or something. Those eyes look almost human.

 

[F. J. A.]

Hi,

very nice, but it's not more than a typical wolf spider...

Here a nice undetermined Lycosidae (iirc from Guatemala/Central America):
http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/45/1252445/1024_6336353930396634.jpg

An a pair of european wolf spiders (Lycosa tarantula?):
http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/45/1252445/400_3837383734383136.jpg
Regards,

Fabian

 

[metallica]

they used a ringflash, that is all.

 

[danread]

Eddy is right. Whats looks like pupils in the eye is in fact the reflection from the ring flash used to take the photo.

 

[edesign]

nice, i learned something today ...also wasn't aware wolf spiders were tarantulas

 

[cacoseraph]

nice, i learned something today ...also wasn't aware wolf spiders were tarantulas

he is talking about the european namesake

tarantulas of today are called "tarantula" (as opposed to another common name like mygla or birdeater) because there was some confusion between a burrowing euro species now called Lycosa tarantella or someting very similar to that that truly is a true wolf spider and A. avicularia (Linneas, 18-something) which is in what we now call tarantula, i think

The early European explorer naturalist types were only familar with the tarantula from Europe, naturally enough. The "original" tarantula was a large (something like 2-4" (oh, sorry, 5cm-10cm, i forgot i was talking about europe) legspan burrowing true spider, in the Lycosidae family.

hm, when i google it seems to be Lycosa tarantula, but i could have sworn i read slight spelling difference

well, whatever. that's what he's talking about

 

[edesign]

http://arachnophiliac.co.uk/burrow/theraphosidae.htm

and i meant that Lycosidae are not a theraphosid, just didn't want to come across as rude or anything lol

 

[Snipes]

oh yeah, wolf spiders should go in other arachnids not tarantula picures :8o . I think it reminds me of the abominable snowman from the animated rudolf or something. I have always loved this pic, ringflash or whatever or not. I still like the effect. Maybe if people had this pic up they wouldnt want to squash wolf spiders.

 

[edesign]

I think it reminds me of the abominable snowman from the animated rudolf or something.

lol...now that you mention it....yeeeaaaa...it sure does

 

[pandinus]

yea i've seen that picture before, but i cant remeber where...

Fun fact: the wolf spider(lycosa tarantula) was blamed as being the culprit behind the affliction called "tarantism", although scolars now believe that the actual culprit was not lycosa, but Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, which would mean that in actuality, tarantism is really latroism.

 

[Nick_schembri]

Very nice, I've never seen a wolf spider in real life. Whats the biggest they can get?

 

[ScorpDemon]

not sure of the species.. but the brownish ones found in the southern united states.. i cant say how big they can get.. i can say i saw one once that was about 2 1/2 - 3" from front leg to back leg.. but that particular species is mostly leg anyway though

 

[Scorpendra]

Maybe if people had this pic up they wouldnt want to squash wolf spiders.

actually, i showed it to my sister and she started screaming like she saw a ghost.

 

[Dark Raptor]

Yes, cacoseraph is right. In Europe... or only in Poland (?) we still call "Tarantula" only some Lycosa species.
All Theraphosidae are called "bird-spiders" or "birdeaters".

 

[Vys]

they used a ringflash, that is all.

Eye of the beholder, in the eye of the beholder, or what is it that they say, now..?

'This is a stone-statue, that is all.' '-A heap of sculpted stone??..It is so much more; it is the idea of a nation, it is the updraught on which it rests, it is the spirit of a generation, it is beauty in a land where so little such dwells..'

 

[Scorpendra]

well, a reflection in an eye (or eight) is rather different than an example of artistic expression.

 

[parabuthus]

Lol... looks like a (scary) muppet of some kind. Very cool!

 

[demolitionlover]

I love spiders... but that pic is very very strange. : )