McCook's split wolf spider
Schizocosa mccooki
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
McCook's split wolf spider is a big, hairy wolf spider from western North America. It is grey to light brown with stripes on its front and white spots on its back. It does not build a web but runs after its food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Western North America, from Canada through the United States to Mexico, in grasslands, chaparral and deserts
Length
0.9 to 2.3 cm (0.36 to 0.89 in)
What does it eat?
Like other wolf spiders, it hunts insects and other small animals on the ground.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 4 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 1.3 seconds⚡moves 34 times its own body length every second
How big is McCook's split wolf spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
McCook's split wolf spider about 2.8 km/h (1.7 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The females can be more than twice as long as the smallest males.
2
Some of these spiders dig burrows to live in.
3
It looks almost exactly like a bigger cousin, and scientists think they might even be the same spider.
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Most asked questions about McCook's split wolf spider
?How big is McCook's split wolf spider?
Its body is about 1 to 2.3 centimetres long, and females are bigger than males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Schizocosa mccooki
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Schizocosa mccooki (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 Eugene Zelenko. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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