Carolina wolf spider
The Carolina wolf spider is the biggest wolf spider in North America. It is mottled brown with a dark belly. It does not make a web to catch food. It lives in a burrow and jumps out to grab insects that walk past.
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Fun facts
The mother carries her round egg sac with her everywhere until the babies hatch.
Its eyes shine when you point a torch at it at night.
It builds a little tower of sticks, grass, pebbles and mud around the door of its burrow.
Its burrow can be 30 centimetres deep and is about 4 degrees cooler than the ground outside.
Males have orange colour on their sides.
Most asked questions about Carolina wolf spider
?How big is the Carolina wolf spider?
Females are 2.2 to 3.5 centimetres long. Males are smaller, about 2 centimetres.
?Does the Carolina wolf spider make a web?
No. It catches food by waiting at the edge of its burrow and pouncing.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hogna carolinensis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Giant wolf spider
Where the facts come from
- Hogna carolinensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by blazeclaw. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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