Drumming sword wolf spider
Gladicosa gulosa
The drumming sword wolf spider is a wolf spider that lives on the forest floor. It does not build a web at all. It hides under leaves in the daytime and comes out at night to hunt.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Beech and maple forests of the United States and Canada
What does it eat?
It hunts insects and other small creatures at night among the leaves.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Drumming sword 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
The mother carries her eggs in a round silk ball until they hatch.
2
After hatching, the baby spiders ride on their mother's back until they can look after themselves.
3
It does not make a web or a shelter. Dead leaves are its hiding place.
you asked
Most asked questions about Drumming sword wolf spider
?Does the drumming sword wolf spider make a web?
No. It hunts on the ground at night and hides under leaves during the day.
?How does it look after its babies?
The mother carries the eggs in a silk ball, and then the babies ride on her back.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gladicosa gulosa
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Gladicosa gulosa (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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