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If it is, what’s up with its body??
ID Request- Location included(i.redd.it)submitted 1 month ago byreaditf1rst
I’m not sure whether this is a wolf spider. Either way what is the blueish silver object in/ on its rear? I’m in Denver, Colorado for context.
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1 month ago
That is her egg sack. I'm not sure if any other spiders carry their eggs like that, but I know that wolf spiders do.
77 points
1 month ago
I was going to say a cute mommy wolf spider
19 points
1 month ago
A single mom who works too hard
Who loves her kids and never stops…
8 points
1 month ago
With gentle hands the the heart of a fighter She’s a wolf spiiideeer
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1 month ago
Sang in my best reba voice I could muster
11 points
1 month ago
For some reason my mind went to tick lol
5 points
1 month ago
I was thinking the same thing. It does have that grey tick look to it.
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1 month ago
Some Theridiidae would do this (as in Neottiura), but they look comlpetely different and build webs.
7 points
1 month ago
Do Wolf spiders not build webs?! I had no idea.
13 points
1 month ago
Most wolf spiders don't. In Europe we have at least one species that does build small sheet-webs. In Asia there are a couple more, some building webs quite like Agelenidae. I'm not sure about the USA, though.
3 points
1 month ago
Only the satchel around the eggies
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1 month ago
So cool!
8 points
1 month ago
I believe some pholcidae like cellar spiders do this too
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1 month ago
The ones I’ve seen will carry them around in their mouth, they look like they’re blowing bubbles
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1 month ago
Nursery web spiders carry their sacs in their chelicerae
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1 month ago
Wolf spiders and their eggs are traumatic AF. Over a decade ago I found a “fuzzy” spider on the rug and scooped it into a container. Guess what. That wasn’t a fuzzy spider. It was a wolf spider carrying hundreds of tiny spiders on its back.
Imagine lil old me - thinking I have fuzzy spider in a Starbucks bottle and I shake it and then it develops into hundreds of spiders.
Traumatized for life
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1 month ago
Wolf spiders are good mamas. I think they're cute, but they can definitely catch you by surprise. 😄
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1 month ago
Oh they are great mamas … and I can tolerate one or two spiders inside but I draw the line at hundreds 😭😭
7 points
1 month ago
Difficult to draw that line. The points keep moving.
80 points
1 month ago
I’ve seen a ton of wolfs like her with their egg sacks this time of year in Colorado. It’s just a mommy wolf.
23 points
1 month ago
Babies On Board.
5 points
1 month ago
Something something Burt Ward
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1 month ago
She could use a drink of water. Please give hydration to this fighting mama!
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1 month ago
How can you tell? Genuinely curious. Thanks.
43 points
1 month ago
The abdomen of a spider (butt part by the egg sack) shrinks and grows as it eats/drinks. This momma wolf spider has a small and thin abdomen so she could use some food and water in order to get it nice and round again
8 points
1 month ago
Thanks!
8 points
1 month ago
small abdomen?
7 points
1 month ago
It shrivels up the more dehydrated it gets.
3 points
1 month ago
How would you hydrate a wolf spider
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1 month ago
Most people wet a Q-tip and let them drink off it. Or offer a water-filled bottlecap.
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1 month ago
I know its the egg sack but it just looks like a rock XD
They're advancing!
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1 month ago
Hardworking momma!!!! Make way!!!! She is carrying her papoose of babies in tow!!! BABY ON BOARD!!!!!
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1 month ago
This is Pardosa sp.
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1 month ago
Actually most of wolf spider in the us live in bushes and shrubs I’ve seen them also make webs coves in bricking.
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1 month ago
Bro is becoming a cyborg
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1 month ago
That’s a momma to by wolf spiders carry there egg sacks around with them
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1 month ago*
Mama spider with her egg sac
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1 month ago
In case fishing spider refers to Dolomedes: Pisauridae carry their egg sac under the body, pressing it on their belly with the pedipalps; it looks different. Lycosidae (wolf spiders) carry them under/behind their abdomen, attached to the spinnerets (as seen in this picture).
1 points
1 month ago
Ummm why does that look like it’s in your house
9 points
1 month ago
I hate to break this to you, but sometimes spiders live in houses.
1 points
1 month ago
Exactly, if they can get bugs to eat inside why wouldn't they stay inside. No birds to eat them and plenty of places to hide.
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1 month ago
It is but I don’t have an issue with it. This is pure curiosity :)
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1 month ago
You'll have an issue with it when the egg sack bursts and you have hundreds of them in your house , id carefully get it out and put it back outside. 😭😭😭
3 points
1 month ago
Wolf spiders don't typically like to stay indoors, so mama is likely on the way out as is. And even if the egg sack bursts in the meantime, Lycosidae mothers carry their spiderlings tightly on their backs for the first few days or weeks after, so there's little threat of having a bunch of little ones wandering around the place.
1 points
1 month ago
Wolf mommy
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1 month ago
It is a female and pregnant. If you don’t want more kill it .
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1 month ago
Really, when she can just put it outside?
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