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Currently working with Hogna lenta and Gladicosa pulchra. Some roam, some burrow, and some web, so depending on the species, you may need to adjust your enclosure and husbandry accordingly. But generally speaking, all wolf spiders need soft substrate, lots of floor space, a water dish at all...

Dolomedes can run like the wind. Yesterday my juvie D. albineus ran up the lid, up my arm, and around my back to the other side in a flash. I used a cup and the mirror in my room to capture it.

That's a monster. Okefinokee for sure.

Well I managed to get ahold of what she was towing. It seems that at some point she traded the roach carcass for another chunk of sphagnum. I have no idea where the roach is, but hopefully my isopods eat it before it gets too gross. :/ I think you're right... spiders are just weird...

Yessss! I love me some lycosidae and pisauridae, which are both hard to find for sale in captivity. I also prefer collecting myself rather than buying because for myself, I just collect what I need. By putting money into a distributor, you're incentivizing them to go and collect a few...

To me this looks like a mature male six-spotted fishing spider, Dolomedes triton. This is a semi-aquatic species that requires lots of foliage and a large water dish to thrive.

Cross-posted from the facebook group. Hey guys, I have a really weird question. My fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) laid some unfertilized eggs a few weeks ago, and her behavior since has been very strange. I have occasionally watched her spend several hours trying to drag chunks of...

How sure are you guys that this is a huntsman? I would have guessed it's a ctenid.

P. mira do pretty well in disturbed habitats and yards. I often find them by flipping trash. As pannaking22 said, not unusual to see them ducking indoors during the colder months.

Possibly a trapdoor spider in the genus Ummidia if you're in a rural riparine habitat but more than likely a wolf spider in the genus Tigrosa

The only real nocturnal spider predator we have here, other than frogs, is probably the fishing spider. But they seem to be localized to mature forests associated with swamps, whereas wolves prefer rocky hillsides and ridgelines.

Absolutely! All my lizards love them, and bearded dragons will eat just about anything... even those nasty superworm beetles. Just don't catch hornworms from the wild... both tomato and tobacco hornworms are naturally poisonous, as they both have toxic host plants. Captive sourced hornworms are...

Interesting you'd mention that as lycosidae diversity seems to get significantly thinner around the tropics... even in very wet places like Amazonia, they are usually replaced by ctenids or other convergently similar spiders... the warmer places that have lots of wolf spiders (IE: Florida) are...

Are we talking about a species from Thailand? No, we're not. We're talking about wolf spiders from temperate western regions, which are almost always found in places that have access to fresh water. Just because there isn't rain or a stream doesn't mean there isn't water there, it just means you...

True spiders... forget it! Feeders don't last long when lycosids, sparassids, ctenids, or larger pisaurids are around. My MM carolinensis is an absolute livewire at feeding time.

I flip crickets into my G. porteri enclosure and she usually grabs them before they even hit the ground.

Grass spider and a dock spider? :)

Definitely not lycosidae... I'm thinking pisauridae although I'm not sure it's a Dolomedes. I suppose it could also be a ctenid, or some other type of similar spider bearing the name "fishing spider"

My Hogna carolinensis MM is starting to learn that I bring him food. He's extremely alert and aware, and his prey drive is like no other. Clearly a very sight-driven species and one that is designed to react to stimuli very quickly.

Can you tell us a little about how you keep them? I've been looking to get my hands on them for a while now.