~ WOLF SPIDER MANIA ~

[ExoticOddities]

[SIZE=18pt]Burrowing Wolf Spider[/SIZE]

Here is a photo of a beautiful burrowing wolf spider that I was able to capture in the field. This was not staged, this was a female captured on film in her natural state and home. Burrowing wolf spiders fold and conceal their legs in their burrow, and pop only their head up to see, lying in wait for the next hapless victim.

[SIZE=18pt]Unearthed[/SIZE]

This is the same spider after I unearthed her with a shovel. She ran just a little bit until she got to some grass: then she just stood there in confusion, defiance, and beauty ...

[SIZE=18pt]Same Spider Now ...[/SIZE]

As you can see, she has taken to captivity extremely well, and has once again made a burrow out of the peat/sphagnum moss substrate I have provided for her. Wolf spiders are extremely easy to keep in captivity, requiring only a basic substrate, a water source, and perhaps a little perch. As a matter of fact, our female here was so comfortable she has laid eggs down in there at the bottom of her burrow too

[SIZE=18pt]Close-Up[/SIZE]

Here is a closer view of her lying in wait. These spiders have voracious appetites and they settle-in well and make tremendous and interesting pets ... every bit as interesting (and in some cases more interesting) than praying mantids. I know, I have both. Wolf spiders are also much longer-lived than virtually any mantid.

[SIZE=18pt]The Burrow[/SIZE]

I tried to feed her and capture a shot of her with prey, but she was so darned fast and decisive, she snatched-up the grasshopper and ran back down into her burrow, faster than I could get to my camera again and record the shot! So instead, I took a side-shot of her burrow, through her plastic container, to show just how extensive her construction efforts were B)

If you think you might be interested in adding a wolf spider to your collection of "atypical pets," I have several large and very interesting species to choose from:

Burrowing Wolf Spiders: (Geolycosa missouriensis) Massive, voracious, fascinating. $20 plus shipping.

Carolina Wolf Spiders: (Hogna carolinensis) Enormous; voracious. $15.00 plus shipping.

Field Wolf Spiders: (Hogna lenta) Good-sized; will eat as much as you feed them. $10.00 plus shipping.

Giant Wolf Spiders: (Hogna helluo) Massive; voracious. $20.00 plus shipping.

[SIZE=8pt]$50 minimum order to make the shipping worthwhile for both of us. Yes, you can mix species too. Combine an order of anything you like from my site below. Credit Cards accepted through PayPal.[/SIZE]

Check out my website below for particulars or contact me directly at (615) 545-5532 or email [email protected]

http://www.johnkoerner.org/ExoticOddities/wolf.html
Thank you.

Jack

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[macro junkie]

i wish i could see the pics..god knows whats going on with my pc :angry:

 

[mantidsandgeckos]

Poor MJ cant see da pics ...Beautiful spiders !Cant find anything like that here.

 

[ExoticOddities]

i wish i could see the pics..god knows whats going on with my pc :angry:

Well, my photos aren't of the same quality as the ones you take with your marcro camera (as all I have is a G9), but they come out pretty well and show the species nicely, and I am still surprised you can't see them :huh:

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[ExoticOddities]

Beautiful spiders !Cant find anything like that here.

Well as they say in real estate: location, location, location

I lived for the last 7 years on 29 acres in Tennessee, and although I saw some stuff, really there wasn't much out there besides brown recluse spiders and a rare occasional trapdoor. Hardly ever saw a mantid (maybe four in 7 years). I saw an occasional kingsnake, copperhead, or black ratsnake. On a rare occasion.

Yet in the mere 3 months I've been here in Florida I have seen more reptiles, amphibians, insects, spiders, and scorpions of all description than I saw in an entire 7+ years in TN ... in fact, just caught another fishing spider and grass-like mantid tonight B)

So if you like tons and tons of "neat invertebrate stuff" all around you (as well as vertebrate), FL is definitely the #1 spot in the US to live (or at least right up there near the top). Other considerations I would imagine would be the southern tip of TX and parts of Arizona ...

Jack

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[obregon562]

gorgeous. i love them more and more each time i see them!

 

[chrisboy101]

errrr, thats ugly man lol but interesting :lol:

 

[macro junkie]

lol..very strange..i can see the pics now...nice shots. .some scary looking spiders you have there...All im interested in is jumping spiders..exotic ones..the ones we get here are so small, 1/4 inch.

 

[idolomantis]

i like them, i wish wer had them here in the netherlands.

 

[chrisboy101]

i like them, i wish wer had them here in the netherlands.

forgot that!i would be so scared if i had spiders like that in my area

 

[ExoticOddities]

lol..very strange..i can see the pics now...nice shots. .some scary looking spiders you have there...All im interested in is jumping spiders..exotic ones..the ones we get here are so small, 1/4 inch.

Glad you can see the pics now!

And I am sorry Chrisboy101, but this spider is like a lotta women I've met--she may have an ugly face, but she's got a beautiful body and a great personality B)

Jack

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