A Guardian Mother

This is a Nursery Web Spider.She carries her egg sac in her fangs and when the spiderlings are ready to hatch she sets up her nursery in foliage and then sits atop it ...guarding it until the babies are born.

[Hope D Jennings]

@kali66 of course I was thinking of you while photographing her.:)

[Tonia Jordan]

Very cool!

[Sue Wilde]

Amazing in mono

[Kate]

Cool biology! Great photo!!

[Lisa Villella]

Awesome!

[Kathy]

A vivid photo in b&W.

[MaryBeth Dailey]

Love! Fav

[April]

Great contrasts!

[Graeme Stevens]

Great shot

[Rachel]

Terrific in b&w, fav!

[Kay Hodges]

Great shot

[KWind]

Wow... that's a monster! Great shot!

[Francoise]

this is a truly gorgeous picture.

[Taffy]

Amazing closeup!

[Debbie]

what a terrific image - so well balanced -fav

[Debs Stott]

Works so well in b&w, wonderful composition.

[Margaret Obey]

Fabulous fav

[Jan Rose]

Nice colour choice for the photo.

[Andrew]

wonderful composition!

[Ethel]

I was astonished when I read you account of this spider. Nature amazes and you have captured it so beautifuly

[belinda]

Wonderful shot.

[Robyn]

Neat in the b/w

[Lyn Berriman]

noooooooooooo she is awful.........but your image is magical!!!

[Kane Arlow]

She sounds like a mum you don't want to mess with.

[kali]

fantastic! she is so beautiful, and so well presented hehe fav

[Denise fuller]

wow amazing

[Andy Mcculloch]

Superb.

[Sally Ings]

Amazing capture, works beautifully in black and white

[pam olson]

hate spiders - but great pic!

[Annie D]

very very cool - image and story

[chanimal]

Great capture.Love the detail and color choice

[Debi 🐩]

Although this sends creepy shivers down my back it's an amazing shot, great detail, focus and composition

[Catherine Pace]

Wondrous

[Lisa Spring]

Oh My Goodness. Great shot. Ick. Great DOF and POV. Did I mention ICK. LOL