Stone spider
The stone spider is a small, dark wolf spider that lives near water in the United States and Canada. It loves stony beaches, where it sits in the sun and waits for food to come close. It is very common on some beaches.
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Fun facts
It is a wolf spider, a spider that hunts instead of building a web to catch food.
It sits still and waits, then grabs prey that comes too close.
It likes to bask in the sun on the stones.
On one beach in Rhode Island scientists counted about 30 of them along every half metre of shore.
In warm months some of them move up and down the beach with the tides.
Most asked questions about Stone spider
?What does the stone spider eat?
Small flies, springtails and beach hoppers.
?How big is the stone spider?
It is about 6 to 9 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pardosa lapidicina
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pardosa lapidicina (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 Gergin Blagoev, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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