Talk:Wolf spider

message: "The wolf spiders are capable of nothing defensive to bites, and some South American species may give bites that are medically significant. However, in general their presence works very much in favor of humans wherever they are found."
Even if the first sentence of that paragraph was improved, I think the entire paragraph is redundant when taken in context. It's directly followed by the "Toxicity" section. I'm new-ish to editing Wikipedia, so I'm not sure if I should just go ahead and remove that paragraph or not. :^) -- Timothym (talk) 07:15, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description 

message: Is the spider a wolf spider, Wolf spider, or Wolf Spider?  The page name indicates the last, and the text of the artilce indicates the first.  -SCEhardT 04:36, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A good point, which I've now dealt with. Capital letters are controversial when applied to individual species; for whole groups, they're definitely not used. --Stemonitis 14:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: There are several genera of wolf spiders and even more species.  The largest member of the Lycosidae in the United States is called the "Carolina Wolf Spider." Although I am living in N. Carolina, The body of this species is approximately one inch long. 
Wolf spiders do not climb well. They can't go up glass, for instance. So they are at risk if they climb up walls. One danger is falling and injuring themselves. Another danger is falling into something that they can't climb out of --   
: Nonsense.  I have them in Garrett Co. MD and they will climb up a few feet at least.   Climbing up glass does not count, but they do climb.  --71.245.164.83 (talk) 03:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The big ones in Garrett Co. MD are very wary of humans and will not attack.   Shoo them off but don't kill them.--71.245.164.83 (talk) 03:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Including the spread of the legs, they can be as big as a silver dollar (approximately 2" diameter - at least the ones in Garrett Co, MD.  Scary yes, but at the same time, not aggressive.  It certainly does take some getting used to. I've only encountered them outside, in their natural environment. --71.245.164.83 (talk) 03:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

text: i agree, some clarity would be a good idea, i assume this must mean without legs, because there is a wolf spider that lives under my BBQ which is biggest than a matchbox, i saw one in Cyprus bigger than my hand, and there is a photo at the bottom of this page of a female in the palm of someone's hand- clearly overall they can be bigger than 1.18 inches, but the way it's currently written suggests otherwise...  188.221.73.75 (talk) 13:49, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.P0M (talk) 16:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: The scientific classification box is overlapping the additional photos.  I'm using FF 1.0.7.  Also I just woke up to two wolf spiders here on my porch in Santa Cruz, CA.  One of them was at least an inch and a half in body length and probably 4-5 inches in "legspan."
plus you can find them in the woods and near your house. protect your animals and toddlers.
by lea Patrick of Buna, Texas  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.210.229.156 (talk) 13:27, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page features overlap 

message: I think the gallery at the end is too big and cluttered, although these pictures could be useful for the article. maybe we could move it to the talk page and work these pictures one by one into a nice long article about wolf spiders? :) --Sarefo 01:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gallery

message: What do they eat?
:Insects, I would imagine. Skogul 12:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely. P0M (talk) 20:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What do they eat?

message: Wolf Spiders can grow (with legs) to be the size of your palm. I've seen some personally bigger than some tarantulas. In fact, I caught one in my office today about 1 1/4 inch long (without legs).  There's reports of some getting to be 2 Inches long in books and other articles.
As far as toxicity, their bites are similar to a bee sting.  Little redness, swelling, no where near fatal by any stretch.  Wolf Spiders are oportunist hunters, anything that's smaller than them that they can sneak up on and kill they'll give it a try. You can handle them- I pet the one i caught bare-handed and named him Pete heh. They eat crickets, flies (if they can catch them), small geckos, and even young grass hoppers. Rule of thumb, don't play with spiders you don't what are, but wolf spiders are pretty tolerable of people, they just dont want to get squished, and will make every attempt to get out of your way and won't agressively defend anything- except some borrowing species... Any spider in a web is more likely to attack and bite when cornered than a free-roaming wolf spider- Just dont get some species of wolf spider mixed up with Brown Recluses- I live in texas some look strikingly similar in dim light(don't pet recluses, they're antisocial at best)
The one thing i'm curious about is mating habbits and socialogy of wolf spiders. Are they all lone-wolfs? I'm going to catch a good 10 or so and put them in a cage and feed them all and see if they eat eachother- since they do eat smaller spiders as well...
:They will definitely eat each other. There are some spiders that live together, but not any of the Lycosidae that I know about. P0M (talk) 16:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleared up Info 

message: I wonder if someone could perhaps draw up the size of this spider in comparison to say a human hand.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.177.12.104 (talk) 02:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wolf spiders come in all sizes. The largest American species has a body length of about 1 inch long. The smallest of the wolf spiders are around 1/8 inch long. So a single drawing would have to include both extremes. P0M (talk) 16:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comparative Scale

message: I discovered a rather large specimen outside of my home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at ~1430 (day time).  I'm not an artist, but I did get to handle the spider a bit. His leg span measured 3" and would cover most of a person's hand.  The spider over all was a good sport about me picking him up and carrying him to his photo op.  It didn't even seem to mind me putting a quarter and a pen near it.  I would guess that most times it would sit still instinctively, so that it's natural camouflage would give it protection.  Loud noises did tend to startle it.  When something of this nature would occur it would jump 2-4" straight up and run to the nearest wall or place it thought it could hide.
:Rabidosa punctulata I think. The front two legs of the males of this species are black, unlike the females whose legs are all the same color. P0M (talk) 16:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's too large to be a wolf spider. I think it's likely to have been one of the Sparassidae (Huntsman spiders). In your area it could have been Heteropoda venatoria or Olios fasciculatus. The former species is rather shy, the latter species is possibly a little more aggressive. One of the unusual characteristics of the Huntsman spiders is that they run at top speeds in an absolutely straight line. They may make prey mistakes, so watch your fingers. P0M (talk) 16:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The other one wasn't a huntsman spider.  The spider I found was fairly fury.  It didn't have the crab-like stance the huntsman seems to have and the legs were all roughly the same length.  It was hanging from a brick wall with two legs back and two forward.  Looking back I guess it may have been a tarantula but I could swear it looked more like the photos I posted.  Still trying to find the photo's I took of it.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kesterj (talk • contribs) 02:05, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The eyes of tarantulas are very much different from those of the wolf spiders. So you might want to look at some close-up images of tarantula eyes and of wolf spider eyes. Post the pictures if you ever find them. I recently went back to check sizes and couldn't find any expert testimony about wolf spiders with bodies above approx. one inch long. P0M (talk) 07:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Scale and Images

message: I just noticed that somebody has inserted a picture of one of the Salticidae into the taxonomy box. I will fix it. P0M (talk) 16:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong photo -- vandalism?

message: The article currently has wolf spiders enlarged to 3 inches.  The largest American wolf spiders, Hogna carolinensis, are about 1 in long -- if you count only body length.  As far as I know, none of the Lycosidae have body lengths larger than that. 
Spider dealers generally measure the size of tarantulas (and other spiders they may have for sale) by measuring the spread of the spider's legs. That would mean that a somewhat leggy H. carolinensis would probably be around 3 inches.  
There are Huntsman spiders in S.E. Asia somewhere with leg spans of around 10 inches -- that's much larger than the kind that are found in the U.S., Japan, etc.  So it is possible that there may be some huge wolf spider somewhere with a body length of 3 inches. If so, let's have the citation. Otherwise, the claim will have to go. P0M (talk) 00:39, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am no expert and I have no sources but I've had a wolf spider on my leg (In Australia) that was at least the size of a huntsman if not bigger. It was probably 5 inches wide if you measure the legs. And from front to back it would've been 2-3 inches.--122.107.198.87 (talk) 09:55, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's possible. But you would have to have scholarly recognition of your find. If there is a member of the Lycosidae that large, it's hard to believe that none of the people in Australia who have spent their entire lives dedicated to the study of arachnids could have missed this species.  P0M (talk) 06:24, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  misleading information 

message: Wolf spider, Greenwood, Missouri photo seems pretty worthless. Any possibility of removal? 68.100.114.65 (talk) 05:23, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

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thread_title:  [[:File:Lycosidae female carrying young.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: Gallery is to big, could be solved just with good quality photos. --PetarM (talk) 06:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The image layout needs completely revising; it badly violates MOS:SANDWICH. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:44, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

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message: it stalks its prey 41.0.60.79 (talk) 17:57, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Activities  

message: there are multiple grass spiders in the gallery 2600:1015:B108:7544:312F:8F9C:C647:AB5A (talk) 17:39, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: By "grass spider" do you mean Agelenopsis? Peter coxhead (talk) 19:29, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a wolf spider