Fishing spiders and wolf spiders often look alike with their large, brownish bodies. However, their build, eye patterns, and habits can give them away.

If you saw a brownish colored spider with dark markings crawling through the grass toward you, could you tell if it was a wolf spider or a grass spider? Many people struggle to identify the ...

Squishing wolf spiders reportedly runs the risk of releasing baby spiders, which your Wolfie might be carrying around on her ...

Wolf spiders (family Lycosidae) are active hunters, unlike other spider species that build webs to trap prey. Because of this, female wolf spiders keep their babies close by first carrying their egg ...

Maintaining hundreds of offspring on a single back is a requirement for successful wolf spider reproduction. The use of spinnerets as an anchor creates a severe weight limitation for the mother. An ...

The scary-looking, ominously-named wolf spider is actually a beneficial insect. Wolf spiders belong to the class Arachnida and are members of the family Lycosidae (derived from the Greek word lycos, ...

Third-grader Skyler Hutto led the effort to make the Carolina Wolf Spider the official arachnid of South Carolina. Wolf spiders eat cockroaches, ants and flies. Wolf spiders have eight eyes, and the ...