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Help identifying this spider (Austria) (infosec.pub)

submitted 11 months ago by mourningcrows@mander.xyz to c/arachnology@mander.xyz

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Found this big chonker in the garden, about 4-5cm big, never seen anything like it here before. Any ideas what it could be? : ) Thanks in advance!

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure what kind of spider it is but it appears to be carrying around a bunch of eggs on its back

Maybe a wolf spider?

[–] mourningcrows@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh! I thought it might be eggs on the back that make it look so bumpy

and I just looked up wolf spiders, turns out their numbers have recently increased around here, so it might very well be one! Just thought the legs seemed a little too thin compared to the images I saw online

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Looks like it's carrying its babies on its back. That's probably a wolf spider mom