Friday, April 27, 2018

Wolf spider


Hello reader,



Members of the family Licosidae are spread in the world, been commonly named Wolf spider. With so vast diversity of colors and sizes the best way to recognized one is by their big eyes of the front with four smalls above and more two separate in the top.









There have a good sight thanks to those big eyes, making them a good hunter. They don’t spin a web, and like the huntsman they go after their food. It don’t go after only bugs, incredibly this spider can hunt frogs and toads, but not only that, this spider even dive in the water and catch small fish.



It is more common they be walkers,but some create a burrow that can have or not a door. They really in their vision to do a hunting, but they also use the sensitive legs to know from where is coming a moviment when they stay in the burrow. When they left the burrow at night to hunt if it has a door this stay opened until the spider returns.



Another easy way of recognise them is if you see one carrying a sac, more specifically a female carries a circular sac attached on her spinnerets. When the eggs eclode the spiderlings stay in her back until the change of skin then they disperse by ballooning or walking. The mother helps breaking the sac to the youngs climb her, is a rare parentcare in the spider’s world, she protect the sac and the youngs in her back with her life.








The wolf spider is not exactly dangerous, but a bite can cause a lot of local pain and if the symptoms persist you need to go to a hospital. Normally the spider don’t inject venom unless be continuous provoked. This is another spider with a mit of necrosis, that don’t happened.



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