"The Trochosa Spider: Master of Subtlety in a Universe of Threads"🕷️

Trochosa (C. L. Koch, 1847)

Another one of these beautiful wolf spiders today, night time is really great to find more Lycosids, during the day they are usually a lot more flighty.

As you can see in the image, she lost her right leg 1, the wound looks quite brutal if you ask me, but I doubt the spider pays much attention to it, didn’t have problems walking anyway.

I’d really like to photograph some more species in this family, I’ve found a few Alopecosa spec., but they are always quite impatient, even at night, so I haven’t been succesfull. I want to get a few prey scenes, portraits and portraits with babies of all the species I can find this year.

Found together with @grunamanda

🧩Focus stacked
⚙: ISO 200, 1/50th, f8
Magnification: 2x + crop
Gear:
📸 OM-D EM1 Mark III @omsystem.de @omsystem.cameras
🔎 M.Zuiko Digital ED 90mm F3.5 Macro IS PRO
⚡ Godox V860o-III @godoxlighting

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