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A stunning pic has capture a wolf wanderer bear a hat of her own baby in Maryland . The image , style " Wolf Spider Mama " was named the succeeder of the insects and arachnids category ofThe Nature Conservancy ’s 2023 Global Photo Contest .
The image , take by photographerBenjamin Salb , prove a wolf spider ( of the family Lycosidae ) expect its spiderlings . Salb spotted the spider in the middle of an asphalt path early on in the morning .
The wolf spider was walking along an asphalt road when photographer Benjamin Salb.
" What ’s especial to me about this realization is that this mama spider and her spiderlings were just [ in ] my neighborhood car park , " he wrote in anInstagram postafter the winners were announced . " I was n’t on a safari nor in the jungle of Madagascar ( not hating , I ’m just covetous ) . I was in suburban area . "
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Wolf spiders are unique in that they carry their testicle sac on the bottom tail end of their abdominal cavity . They can repose around 100 testicle at a meter and are ferociously protective of their young . " After hatching , the spiderlings rise on their female parent ’s back , and she carries them around for several days,“Jo - Anne Nina Sewlal , an arachnologist at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad , antecedently tell Live Science . Within a week , the spiderlings become self-governing and they climb off and allow for .
The wolf spider was walking along an asphalt road when photographer Benjamin Salb.
The overall winner of the contest was Tibor Litauszki from Hungary , who captured the bit a newt feasted on fresh laid frog eggs underwater .
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In total , more than 80,000 lensman submitted nearly 189,000 photos to the competition . " Photographers from all walks of biography help oneself give voice to nature by showing us what mattered to them , " Alex Snyder , pass judgment coordinator for the competition , read in a statement .
