Burrowing wolf spider?

[Jumbie Spider]

Many wolf spiders are quite fossorial. Geolycosa females dig deep vertical burrows and don't appear to ever leave them.

Tell that to all of them I see running around my house and neighborhood!

 

[Conor10]

Nope, None of the Wolf spiders I have kept can climb smooth surfaces not sure about slings though.

 

[Edan bandoot]

Brief question: I was asked if I could take care of a friend's Hogna and never had any in my inventory. I am interested in whether they can climb smooth surfaces (e.g. glass)?

They can kinda climb the corners if your enclosure is dusty, otherwise no

 

[Jumbie Spider]

Hogna Schmitzi can climb and is often upside down hanging in its acrylic enclosure. Haven't tested glass.
I would add that the H. Schmitzi does tend to also web up a bit as it likes, so maybe the webbing is what helps it to climb, not sure.

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

Tell that to all of them I see running around my house and neighborhood!

I’m talking about specific species that are fossorial, not wolf spiders in general

 

[basin79]

Hogna Schmitzi can climb and is often upside down hanging in its acrylic enclosure. Haven't tested glass.
I would add that the H. Schmitzi does tend to also web up a bit as it likes, so maybe the webbing is what helps it to climb, not sure.

Really? Even when a tiny sling the most mine managed was just about off the ground as she was holding onto some webbing. Once she'd grown out of the 3cm sling pot she's never been able to get off the ground.

 

[Jumbie Spider]

Really? Even when a tiny sling the most mine managed was just about off the ground as she was holding onto some webbing. Once she'd grown out of the 3cm sling pot she's never been able to get off the ground.

Yea I'll try to get some pics / vids next time he's up there. Sometimes I get kind of spooked cuz I dont expect him to be on top.. His last molt he actually made a web hammock on the ceiling and molted there.
I think the reason for it is due to me setting up the enclosure initially for a tarantula, with an aquifer water layer at the bottom, and wet/moist sub with springtails... then I put him in there, so he probably hated the wetness, and camped out on top.
His previous one was very dry and he burrowed in the substrate.

 

[basin79]

Yea I'll try to get some pics / vids next time he's up there. Sometimes I get kind of spooked cuz I dont expect him to be on top.. His last molt he actually made a web hammock on the ceiling and molted there.
I think the reason for it is due to me setting up the enclosure initially for a tarantula, with an aquifer water layer at the bottom, and wet/moist sub with springtails... then I put him in there, so he probably hated the wetness, and camped out on top.
His previous one was very dry and he burrowed in the substrate.

Oh aye. He'd have hated the damp sub.

 

[Jumbie Spider]

@basin79

 

[basin79]

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@basin79

Ahhhh he clings to the holes. Still some work that. What size roughly and age?

 

[Jumbie Spider]

Ahhhh he clings to the holes. Still some work that. What size roughly and age?

Was about 0.25" (probably less than that, he was tiny) when I got him in Nov 2020 (thanksgiving week). Since that pic of him hanging upside down he's molted, now he looks like this. I'd say around 2" maybe bigger as his legs are very long.



This is just a screenshot I took from a video I have of him (since I didn't have any pics handy).

 

[basin79]

Was about 0.25" (probably less than that, he was tiny) when I got him in Nov 2020 (thanksgiving week). Since that pic of him hanging upside down he's molted, now he looks like this. I'd say around 2" maybe bigger as his legs are very long.

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This is just a screenshot I took from a video I have of him (since I didn't have any pics handy).

Bloody hell!!!!!!!! I got my tiny sing 10th July 2020.


Rehoused today after she appeared yesterday after being underground for 3 weeks. Unfortunately one of her back legs is goosed. Didn't harden right. Hoping she's got at least another couple of moults to sort it out.

 

[Jumbie Spider]

Those are some impressive pics!!! Looks amazing! From your pic I would say yours was smaller than mine when I first got it. So maybe mine really was 0.25" (and not smaller). At that size I didn't bother to break out the tape! But I might have some video footage somewhere.

 

[basin79]

Those are some impressive pics!!! Looks amazing! From your pic I would say yours was smaller than mine when I first got it. So maybe mine really was 0.25" (and not smaller). At that size I didn't bother to break out the tape! But I might have some video footage somewhere.

Not that it matters to her but I'm really hoping she has more growing to do. Manages to get that leg out the next moult and ends up with 8 legs as an adult.

And thank you.

 

[Jumbie Spider]

Not that it matters to her but I'm really hoping she has more growing to do. Manages to get that leg out the next moult and ends up with 8 legs as an adult.

And thank you.

I hope she does m8 she's got some nice thickness to her would be great to see her in her full form.

 

[Conor10]

She threw out the sac. I tried to give it back to her but she didn’t want it, I opened it and... It’s INFERTILE.

 

[Conor10]

Huge update: Plants died, you can see the progress on the burrow, and today she is in the process of making another EGG SAC. I noticed how fat she was but I thought it was from her last meal that was a little too big but she ate it anyway.

 

[RoachCoach]

Bloody hell!!!!!!!! I got my tiny sing 10th July 2020.
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Rehoused today after she appeared yesterday after being underground for 3 weeks. Unfortunately one of her back legs is goosed. Didn't harden right. Hoping she's got at least another couple of moults to sort it out.
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Man those photos went from 1 to 100 ricky tick.

 

[Kibosh]

Lots of Geolycosa rafaelana down in Colorado U.S. beautiful fossorial WS. I would definitely go deep with sub with yours.

 

[RoachCoach]

Lots of Geolycosa rafaelana down in Colorado U.S. beautiful fossorial WS. I would definitely go deep with sub with yours. View attachment 381969

Man, that's a rad shot dude