Wolf Spider Facts
Wolf Spider Behavior
With 125 species of wolf spiders in the US, these lone hunters, rarely found in groups, thrive all over the country. As one of the country’s most abundant spiders, wolf spiders are so common in California they have been called California Wolf Spiders. The Texas Rabid Wolf Spider is known as the largest spider in the Lone Star state. In 2000, South Carolina designated the Carolina Wolf Spider, the largest of the wolf spiders, as its official state spider, making South Carolina the only US state to recognize a state spider.
The wolf spider’s most distinctive feature revolves around the fact that female wolf spiders carry their egg sacs and young spiderlings with them. Attached by spinnerets at the end of the female’s abdomen, the female wolf spider carries her egg sac with her while she hunts. At the appropriate time, the female spider opens the egg sac with her powerful jaws and her spiderlings scurry onto the top of her abdomen, where she protects them until their first molt.