Garden wolf spider
The garden wolf spider is a brown spider with a pale yellow stripe running down its back. It does not build a web. It runs after its food, like a little wolf.
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Fun facts
The mother carries her egg sac with her, and later she carries her baby spiders around too.
When the egg sac is new, it is a little bit pink.
It is one of the most common hunting creepy-crawlies on New Zealand farms.
Its legs are usually yellow-brown, but some have green parts.
Scientists once gave it many different names, until one scientist found in 2002 that they were all the same spider.
Most asked questions about Garden wolf spider
?Where does the garden wolf spider live?
Only in New Zealand, on the main islands and some smaller ones, in grassy places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoteropsis hilaris
- Named by
- L. Koch, 1877
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Grey wolf spider
Where the facts come from
- Anoteropsis hilaris (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 Steve Kerr (iNaturalist username: steve_kerr). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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