Dotted wolf spider
Rabidosa punctulata
The dotted wolf spider is a large, light brown spider with stripes on its front part. Its back part has pale spots and a dark stripe down the middle. Like other wolf spiders, it runs after its food instead of waiting in a web.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The eastern and central USA, from Massachusetts to Kansas, Texas and Florida, in weedy places and tall grass
What does it eat?
It hunts insects and other small animals in the grass.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Dotted wolf spider about 2 km/h (1.2 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It likes places with weeds and tall grass.
2
Its pale spots give it the name dotted wolf spider.
3
Wolf spiders do not build webs to catch food. They chase and grab it.
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Most asked questions about Dotted wolf spider
?Where does the dotted wolf spider live?
In weedy, grassy places in the eastern and central USA.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rabidosa punctulata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Rabidosa punctulata (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 Patrick Edwin Moran. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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