The Wolf Spider
Araneae
by Jay W. Sharp
Hairy as Bigfoot, swift as a barracuda and nearly the size of a tarantula, the Wolf Spider, like other hunting spiders, may ambush or run down its prey, which includes insects such as earwigs, ants, ...
Wolf Spiders are small to fairly large, from 3 to 35 mm (or 1/8 to 1 3/8 in. long) not including the legs. They are usually brown and may be patterned. The long legs are hairy. The eight eyes are arranged in three rows.
Wolf spider
Pardosa amentata
Wolf spiders are often seen in large numbers and it was once thought that they hunted in packs - which is why they are named after the predatory wolf.
Wolf Spiders are found across the United States, north into Canada and south into Mexico. In San Diego County, they occur in most habitats, especially near water.
Natural History
Pardosa carry egg sacs under the abdomen until the eggs hatch.
No-eyed big-eyed wolf spider (Adelocosa anops)
Wolf spider (Pardosa amentata)
Wolf spider (Pardosa nigriceps)
Liphistius (Liphistius malayanus)
David Bowie spider (Heteropoda davidbowie)
Crab spider (Thomisus onustus) ...
Wolf Spider (family Lycosidae)
Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus)
Other Critters ...
Carolina Wolf Spider
Lycosa carolinensis
The Carolina Wolf Spider does not spin a web. It is a nighttime hunter and scurries along the ground.
Garden Wolf Spider
Garnet Lherzolite and other inclusions from a basalt flow, Bow Hill, Tasmania
Gas streaming in trachyte lava, Mount Melbourne, Antarctica
Gastropod microanatomy and 3D reconstruction
Gavin Parkinson with a 14 kg Barramundi ...
Their extremely long bills are used to feed on burrowing wolf spiders in South Dakota. It is a sandpiper of the dry grasslands and prairies of the West, and is only found on mudflats, marshes, and wetlands during migration and in winter.
Young or adult Cane Toads are eaten by wolf spiders, freshwater crayfish, Estuarine Crocodile, crows, White-faced Heron, kites, Bush Stone-curlew, Tawny Frogmouth, Water Rat and the Giant White-tailed Rat.
Only a few of them are dangerous: these include the red-back spider, the Sydney funnel-web spider and white-tailed spiders.
Other spiders such as the wolf spiders and the large bird-eating spider (right) look fierce but are not usually a danger to ...
The male is 1/4 to 1/2 inches in body size; the female is 5/8 to 1 inch in body size with a leg span of over 3 inches. Body and legs are brownish gray and marked extensively with blackish-brown. They resemble wolf spiders but have a more flattened ...
Several families of hunting spiders, such as jumping spiders and wolf spiders, have fair to excellent vision. The main pair of eyes in jumping spiders even sees in colors.
The Trail was not marked, and appeared to be a dingey dirt road just outside of the town of Douglas, used by an apparently large proportion of Douglas denizens as the town dump. The wildlife was scant, consisting of one very large wolf spider, ...
Colourful crab spiders (Family Thomisidae), somewhat crab-like in shape, frequently sit on flowers and ambush their prey, such as honey bees. Among the many ground species are the wolf spiders (Family Lycosidae) that forage for their prey, ...
Originally the name was applied to a spider of the wolf spider family, Lycosa tarentula, of S Europe, whose bite was supposed to cause tarantism, a nervous condition characterized by hysteria; ...
 See also: Spider, Wolf, Burro, Jumping spider, Crab
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