Comments on: Wolf Spider

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:18:51 +0000

Jon:

Oho, I see! There’s a lady down there!

To people watching, think of it like this: he’s seducing a lady who is bigger and stronger than him, who is waiting inside her fortress-like bedroom, and who has knives in both hands that she may just decide to use on him at any moment . . .

Thanks for letting us know about your video!

By: Jon Gardner

Jon Gardner — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:39:18 +0000

Here is a video I took of a wolf spider in the wild that turned out pretty good. I was wondering what the heck he was up to so I set my camera on the ground next to him and filmed.

http://youtu.be/R-RkV0v34Tk

Hope you like it.

By: Anders Nielsen

Anders Nielsen — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:17:23 +0000

Hi,

One species of Wolf Spiders had the name Tarantula in it although Wolf Spiders are not Tarantulas.

That type of Wolf spiders looked like Tarantuals though.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:51:25 +0000

Thanks so much for the link on tips for keeping wolf spiders as pets. My daughter is a bug lover and we have a wolf spider. She loves to catch grasshoppers for “Rosie” to eat. The other day Rosie made an egg sack, so now we get the privilege of seeing her with her babies. Everyone at our house is excited. Do you still have your wolf spider? Thanks again for the information.

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:48:32 +0000

Actually, you may be more right than you know in calling yours a tarantula: I understand that the original "tarantula" is actually a very large Italian wolf spider, that isn't really related to the very large, hairy spiders that we currently call tarantulas.

By: Heather K.

Heather K. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:36:42 +0000

This has been a highly entertaining and informative piece on your wolf spider. My son and I discovered one on our sliding glass door this evening. We at first thought that it was a tarantula. (The size of our wolf spider compares to one). We or should I say I am not brave enough to keep one as a pet. Thanks for the info…

By: TC

TC — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:35:53 +0000

Hi, loving the site. Speaking of wolf spiders, one of my favorite things to do is to go “spider spotlighting.” Any wooded area, or even a back yard will do. Go out after dark with a flashlight, which you hold up to the side of your head even with your eyes. Shine the light over the grass and you may see HUNDREDS of wolf spider eyes shining back at you. They don’t seem to mind this, or even really notice. I’ve walked up to many wolf spiders and watched them hunt and eat this way. This is a great activity for a party if you like to amaze (freak out) people about how many spiders there are around us all the time.

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:53:45 +0000

I just read the UK link. They eat worms? Amazing!

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:51:58 +0000

Given their tiny mental powers, I wonder if they can be trained to do anything. Hmm. Could they learn to navigate a maze?

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:30:55 +0000

He's taking very well to domestication, it turns out he likes the same crickets that we buy for the tarantula (he eats the smaller ones that are about the same size as he is). The Univesity of Kentucky has a nice writeup on keeping wolf spiders as pets for anybody who wants to go into this in a serious way. That same page has instructions for keeping several other Kentucky arthropods in captivity. Huh. I didn't know there were scorpions in Kentucky.