Shore spider
The shore spider is a small wolf spider with long, thin, spiny legs. It does not build a web to catch food. It runs after its prey and grabs it. It has eight eyes, with four in the top row and two in each of the next rows.
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Fun facts
A mother carries her egg sac with her, and after the babies hatch she carries them around for a few weeks.
It cannot climb smooth walls, because it has no sticky hair tufts on its feet like many other spiders.
It can smell and feel when a bigger spider is near, and then it keeps very still.
If a predator grabs a leg, it can let the leg go and escape.
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?How big is the shore spider?
Females are up to about 6 millimetres long and males are a bit smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pardosa milvina
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pardosa milvina (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 Smidon33. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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