Field Wolf Spider
Hogna lenta
Arachnida
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 1-2 years
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Running
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Rare
About
This wolf spider hunts across open fields and sandy soils throughout the USA. It carries its entire egg sac attached to its spinnerets and guards the spiderlings on its back.
Life cycle
- 1.egg sacA silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
- 2.juvenileA spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
- 3.subadultA near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
- 4.adultFully grown after its final molt.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Genus
- Hogna
- Species
- Hogna lenta