Burnt wolf spider
The burnt wolf spider is a small dark brown spider with a bright stripe down its front. It loves warm, sunny, bare places, like heaths where a fire has burned. Like all wolf spiders, it runs after its food instead of building a web.
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Fun facts
It moves onto heathland after a fire and can live there for about four years afterwards.
Sometimes there are so many of them in the stones next to railway tracks that other wolf spiders hardly live there.
In the mountains of Europe it can live as high as 1800 metres, on the sunny edges of pine forests.
The females dig small, shallow hollows in the soil.
In Britain the males come out first in spring, and the last ones you see in autumn are females.
Most asked questions about Burnt wolf spider
?Where does the burnt wolf spider live?
In sunny, bare places across Europe and Asia, like burnt heaths, stony grassland and forest clearings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xerolycosa nemoralis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Xerolycosa nemoralis (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 Andreas Eichler. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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