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Wolf Spider - Trochosa? - Tigrosa helluo

Wolf Spider - Trochosa? - Tigrosa helluo
Holland, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 24, 2015
Size: 5/8 inch (w/o legs)
I found this spider crawling across my floor and decided to capture it and let it go on my back porch. I set it down on a bench (near another spider's web), but it blundered into the existing spider web. I shot some pictures, but the spider was unnaturally curled up (which I thought was due to some spider web caught on its legs). In reality, if you look closely, the picture shows several spiders climbing on its back and I believe they were trying to subdue it with their webs. I tried to remove some of the webs and moved the spider, but still two smaller spiders are on its back in the final picture.

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The little...
...spiders on the back appear to be young being carried by the mother wolf spider. As for species, I'll let Laura take a look.

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