Ground wolf spider
The ground wolf spider is a brown hunting spider that does not build a web to catch food. Instead it walks around on the ground at night and catches small animals. The female has a reddish back end, and the male has dark front legs.
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Fun facts
It is most active at night and hides under stones and logs in the day.
It moves more slowly than many other wolf spiders.
Special wasps hunt it and use it as food for their young.
Two short lines on its back help experts tell it apart from other spiders.
It likes dry heath best, but it can also live on hills and even in old factory sites.
Most asked questions about Ground wolf spider
?Does the ground wolf spider make a web?
No. It hunts by walking around on the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trochosa terricola
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Trochosa terricola (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 Krochmal. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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