A stunning photograph has captured a wolf spider wearing a hat of her own babies in Maryland. The image, titled "Wolf Spider Mama" was named the winner of the insects and arachnids category of The ...

My photo here shows a female wolf spider with recently hatched babies clinging to her. They will ride on her abdomen for a few days until they become too big to ride. Often a sudden disturbance will ...

A British man’s wedding anniversary spun out of control when a Peruvian wolf spider bit him and laid eggs in his toe — with a baby hatching inside and “eating its way out.” Colin Blake and his wife ...

A wolf spider carries recently hatched babies on her back while sunning on a rock in Olathe, Kansas. The Kansas City Star North Carolina is home to more than 1,200 species of animals, including ...

For some it’s creepy, for some it’s beautiful, for others, maybe it’s a mix of both. Gaithersburg photographer Ben Salb’s close-up shot of a mother spider has earned him first-place in the Insects and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...