Webbing

[Profkrakatoa]

Do Wolf Spiders web? I've had my H. carolensis for about 3 weeks now, and basically it just seems to stand at attention all the time. I have a fake plant and a water bottle lid for a water dish. I found a care sheet about them, but I'd love a source for more about their behavior. Any links or anecdotes for me? Thanks!

 

[Widowman10]

My Hogna lenta did in the burrow she made. not much, just enough to make it comfy and to attach dirt to. mine was a great display spidey though, always kinda hung around lookin at me for food

Do Wolf Spiders web? I've had my H. carolensis for about 3 weeks now, and basically it just seems to stand at attention all the time. I have a fake plant and a water bottle lid for a water dish. I found a care sheet about them, but I'd love a source for more about their behavior. Any links or anecdotes for me? Thanks!

 

[Profkrakatoa]

My Hogna lenta did in the burrow she made. not much, just enough to make it comfy and to attach dirt to. mine was a great display spidey though, always kinda hung around lookin at me for food

Yep, Mozart is always there - just looking at me with that goofy goofy face. Anyone beside me think they look like a walrus???

 

[Rain_Flower]

Yep, Mozart is always there - just looking at me with that goofy goofy face. Anyone beside me think they look like a walrus???

I dunno about walrus, but they deffinately look funny I want one, those faces are way too cute!

 

[gunslinger]

Most wolf spiders web little and prefer to hide under things already present. There is the genus Sosippus, which makes webs. However, you may be able to induce it to web to some degree if it has a nice crevice to make a home out of. The only H. carolensis I've ever had make webbing did so to partially cover up its home. I smashed a clay flower pot in half and it mounded up the front of it with dirt and made some webbing to camoflauge / support the entrance. Other than that I doubt you will get much webbing at all.

I did have a wolf spider from Florida that burrowed and webbed a leaf to her tunnel entrance, psuedo-trapdoor fashion. Out of all the wolf spiders I've had those are the only two I recall webbing at all. (Other than males when sperm webbing).