Taking care of the children

I took this adorable family picture when we were out gardening and I found this wolf spiders cute little clay nest under a fallen tree branch.

It’s funny how these cold, predatory, mechanical, alien looking creatures can look so warm and caring while sitting on top of an egg.
Maybe there is hope for some of my [...]

Lycosa erythrognatha

This happy looking spider is one of the many in the Lycosidae family, also known as wolf spiders, or how we call them in Brazil, grass spiders.
This one is sometimes confused with the dangerous Phoneutria, the wandering spiders, because they also have red chelicerae, but they are not nearly as dangerous.

They have a painful [...]