Wolf spiders!!!

Eddy sent me a "desert wolf spider" sac with my A. mauritanicus and widow slings -- I had no idea how to care for it, and no one on AB answered my question, so I just left it alone before opening it and spotting three slings. I looked again about three days later . . .


^clicky to zoom

And a couple stragglers on the lid:

cute! we have a kind of wolf spider here in britain,but they are quite small.i used to feed them to my greensnake.

Congrats!
I really like wolf spiders. They hunt in a cool way!

Regards
Robin

LOL, found another adult in my house. Must of been a stow-away from my trip since it was found near my hiking gear...wonder if it's been eating the lobster roaches in my roo... Congrats I hope this one gives me a sack too. And Just wait to you see how cool they look when they get older.
-Eddy

wow looks at all those wolf slings, i love wolf spideras almost as much as i do T's
and have to agree with Nagash of how these wonderful wolf's hunt for thier prey, awesome

Congrats Mike of ya new slings

Thanks! When they get a bit bigger I'll separate and start feeding them.

hey mike, do you know if they get to be bigger than ones here on the eastcoast
just curious if they are or not

i may have to see if i can get eddy or raul to get me one and send it my way

I dont think Raul does much hiking around where I found these. I'll measure the living one for you when I get home

cool bro

From what I've turned up they're not quite as big as the East Coat. But they're still cool.

even if not as big, but they are still cool cuz they are a wolf spider, wolf spiders rocks

wolf's are cool, i have 3 carolinas, 1 from las vegas, 2 w/ sacs from the bay area and some from my local...W

would love to see the one from vegas, I am taking a BIG liking to wolf spiders, loves them almost as much i as i do with T's

would kill for one from overseas if one exists
but i need to learn about these spiders

I'll see if I can remember to snap a pic (getting forgetful in my old age). it's leg span is somewhere between a quarter and a fifty cent peice, and a monster when it comes to eating, I gave it an almost adult dubia and it rode it piggy-back till it finally took it down..W

Hey I actually found a couple of pics I took already
Wolf from Las Vegas;


I'll try to take more to get a size comparison

Looks pretty awesome.

Cool Wolf's fellas!

Oh IHeart, for any serious questions that I can't easily get answers for I trust VL.

Tony

Yeah, now that I think about it I kind of regret not asking over there. I'm still not used to posting a lot there and it always feels weird to double-post threads.

I haven't seen anyone molt yet, but they're happily running around their little delicup they're sharing.

awsome pic! imagine showing that to someone with arachnophobia..........

^Makes me think of the time someone caught a tiny spider at work -- I was checking it out under the microscope when suddenly it twitched.

When a teensy spider that's magnified 40x to 80x twitches unexpectedly, it'll make you jump.

how do you kep them and would the european ones need different conditions because all the females in my garden have egg sacs
i try keeping them but they just die...

Hmm . . . I've never kept adults, so this is a learning experience for me. Try mimicking the conditions you have in your garden (temps, humidity, substrate, etc.). Normally when the eggsac hatches the young scurry onto the mom's back until the first molt (sound familiar? ).

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