Few Photos Of My Wolf Spider

[PhilK]

G'day everyone. This is Crazy, my wolf spider. Not sure of his species but he is an Aussie haha. Enjoy.

 

[dragonblade71]

Beautiful looking specimen. Those markings are quite striking. Where abouts in Aus can you find wolf spiders?

 

[PhilK]

Everywhere. Don't think there's many spots in Australia without them. There must be alot of species over here though, because some live in cold places near water, some live in basically arid places, some more in very dry places near watercourses etc etc etc

Gardens, the bush, under bark, logs, twigs, in burrows etc etc

 

[sick4x4]

thick like a pit-bull..nice..im starting to refocus my interests into true and primitive spiders and pics like that only reinforce it, thanks

 

[lhystrix]

Everywhere. Don't think there's many spots in Australia without them. There must be alot of species over here though, because some live in cold places near water, some live in basically arid places, some more in very dry places near watercourses etc etc etc

Gardens, the bush, under bark, logs, twigs, in burrows etc etc

Appears to be Lycosa godeffroyi.

 

[dragonblade71]

There are these spiders that are quite common in gardens in South Australia though Ive never bothered to have them identified. Their body shape is similar to that of a wolf spider. Though they are very small and have dark brown vertical stripes running down the body. They are also very timid...the slightest touch will have them quickly running away.

 

[PhilK]

Sound like wolfies.

Does it look like this: http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Floridian_1155294596_968.jpg

 

[dragonblade71]

Hmmm...when I click on that link I'm lead to a page that says 'Unauthorized access.' Ive handled the spiders I was referring to quite a few times and let them crawl on my hands. However, I have read that wolf spiders can cause necrosis. So if these spiders are indeed wolf spiders, I don't think I'll be handling them anymore....

 

[PhilK]

Not all wolfies do, and not in all people...

That link is buggered, but I searched Google images and it is the first picture: http://images.google.com/images?svn...&ct=result&cd=1&q=striped+wolf+spider&spell=1

 

[Brettus]

Nice spider Phil.

Ive handled the spiders I was referring to quite a few times and let them crawl on my hands. However, I have read that wolf spiders can cause necrosis. So if these spiders are indeed wolf spiders, I don't think I'll be handling them anymore....

Yeah, some species can in certain types of people. I was reading a book called 'Australia's Most Dangerous' and there were some pretty horrific articles about it. Necrotising arachnidism, I think it is called. As for handling them, good effort. For some reason, true spiders spook me, whereas T's don't. I've handled my Selenotypus before, but I don't think I could handle a wolf spider or huntsmen. It's weird, I know that in Australia the fear should be reversed, considering how aggro our guys usually are:?

 

[Richard McJimsey]

that is a very beautiful wolf indeed, wish we had em around here, we got tons of tegenaria though