She was on top of him (?) when I first opened the door. She didn't return to him & he later disappeared. He was definitely dead. Eaten? She's very dark as compared to other Lycosidae seen here. Almost black.
With Don Fraser and Clint Gibson; my first nocturnal moth survey, organized by Virginia "Ginny" Hamilton of The Nature Conservancy. There were two moth arrays about 400 feet apart. This was the first array, set up in an open flatwoods site. It was underwhelming. We left here at 2110 at headed to the second array.
All of these photographs were taken with my Panasonic Lumix FZ80 (with a broken exposure setting knob) and the built-in flash. The flash worked magically except for one of the spiders, which got "blown out" massively because the background was black rather than white.
Note: Other than the Wingless Meadow Cricket, I cannot identify ANY of these species with certainty. I am relying ENTIRELY on iNat's artificial intelligence/machine learning. So, no guessing, please!
body length 0.72"/18 mm