Shoreline wolf spider
The shoreline wolf spider lives on sandy beaches and riverbanks. Its body is speckled white, grey and brown, so it almost disappears on the sand. Like all wolf spiders, it does not build a web but runs after its food.
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Fun facts
It glues grains of sand together with silk to build its burrow.
It hunts both during the day and at night.
The mother hides her egg sac under a rock or in her burrow.
After hatching, the baby spiders ride on their mother's back until they are ready to go off alone.
Females are usually a little bigger than males.
Most asked questions about Shoreline wolf spider
?How big is the beach wolf spider?
Its body is about 10 to 15 millimetres long, not counting the legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arctosa littoralis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Beach wolf spider
Where the facts come from
- Arctosa littoralis (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 Memer15151. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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