Spider Saturday - Wolf Spider
Here is my first post in the arachnids community on a #spiderday
Here is a nice plump wolf spider that got into my condo from my balcony.
Fortunately it was so fat that it couldn't run that fast so I was able to get it to sit still for a few photos.
Wolf spiders may look scary but I've been catching them and handling them my whole life and have never been bitten. They are smart and know how to differentiate prey from predator and they don't tend to bite predators opting to run away.
I found this one in fall so it was probably looking for a warm place to stay the winter.
I brought out some of the leaves I pressed for fall as a backdrop for the spider photoshoot.
It turned out to be quite the model in high contrast light. Here you can see how translucent they are.
I ended up keeping it for a week feeding it some waxworms before letting it go in a dusty shed. It can overwinter there and possibly find some bugs to eat in the shed.
This was a rather small wolf spider, at first glance I thought it was a grass spider but after taking note of the eye pattern I realized it was a wolf spider with two eyes on top, two big eyes in the middle and four small eyes under the two big eyes.
Here's a good lurking shot.
And a more didactic white background shot.
Here in Illinois the wolf spiders are pretty small compared to the ones I would find in Arizona that seemed like half the size of your hand.
That's all for now, happy #spiderday
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awesome wolf spider
They are pretty cool, though not quite as friendly as the jumping spiders.
yes, i like to see it. How are you now,
I'm good now, I was just taking the other jumping spider for a walk outside its cage lol.
I am glad to hear it . And also I'm waiting for your next beautiful spider.
One day I want to buy a green bottle blue tarantula, they are really fancy. https://www.backwaterreptiles.com/tarantulas/greenbottle-blue-tarantula-for-sale.html
very beautiful color, how much does it cost, after you buy it will you keep it.
beautiful spider
The ones I caught in the desert are 3x the size of this one.
wow that spider is very cool, its legs are very long, like the legs of a antula,
They have a similar proportion as a tarantula just much smaller. I bet my tarantulas would love to eat this smaller wolf spider, its a spider eat spider world out there.
if i have time i will look for tarantula later,
Very cool! I like spiders and enjoy seeing them so close up.
Sometimes that's the only way to identify them. From a distance I thought it was a grass spider.
Very pretty
Thanks :-)
Haha, I love how you've modelled her. And she was so complaint, too! Indeed, a very small wolf spood. I think perhaps one of the Hogna sp. !PIZZA for you and her to share. And thank you for posting to the Arachnids community!
It definitely does seem to be in the hogna family. I used to go looking for giant wolf spiders in Arizona with a flashlight in a barn. You could see their little eyes in the darkness glowing from the flashlight. They were huge and fast though so I rarely caught one.
Ha, now that sounds like fun! We have some Geolycosa sp. here and they're quite large but not the largest, for wolf spiders. They burrow, too, so as soon as I get close to catch one, they skitter off and hide under the large rocks. I still need to check them off my spider checklist and it's been years!
Right I've seen those burrowing ones before, they had a bright orange color underneath but were gray on top. My favorite in Arizona were the wind scorpions, aka camel spider. I kept one as a pet then it laid purple eggs and little baby ones hatched. Sadly I was just a kid and didn't have a camera to document the process.
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