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Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
If bitten by a wolf spider, the wound should not be bandaged.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
The two most common spider bites are from house spiders, specifically the jumping spider and wolf spider.
—Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
Some other names for the wolf spider are the ground spider and the hunting spider.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
In this case, Dickman says, wolf spiders eat other insects that dunnarts also like to eat, so hunting wolf spiders not only provides a tasty meal but also removes a source of competition for other food.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
Storm and Lima bred crickets that had never seen a wolf spider before.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2010
If a pregnant female is exposed to a wolf spider, her experiences affect her unborn young.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2010
Enlarge / Rice University graduate student Faye Yap with a deceased wolf spider for use as a necrobotic gripper.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
If bitten by a wolf spider, the wound should not be bandaged.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
The two most common spider bites are from house spiders, specifically the jumping spider and wolf spider.
—Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
Some other names for the wolf spider are the ground spider and the hunting spider.
—Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
In this case, Dickman says, wolf spiders eat other insects that dunnarts also like to eat, so hunting wolf spiders not only provides a tasty meal but also removes a source of competition for other food.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
Storm and Lima bred crickets that had never seen a wolf spider before.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2010
If a pregnant female is exposed to a wolf spider, her experiences affect her unborn young.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2010
Enlarge / Rice University graduate student Faye Yap with a deceased wolf spider for use as a necrobotic gripper.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
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1608, in the meaning defined above
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wolf spider
noun
: any of various active wandering spiders of which most do not build a web but chase and catch their prey
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