Stats

Lifespan

1-2 years

Size

Medium

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Nocturnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

Worldwide

Movement

Running

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Common

About

Wolf spiders are solitary hunters that roam fields and forests without webs. Mothers carry their hundreds of spiderlings on their backs until they can hunt alone.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Lycosidae