« Reply #3 on: Wed, 19 May 2010, 10:42:47 »
Uh... thanks for sharing?
I've a mild fear of spiders myself, but thankfully less so of one of the more common spiders around my house: the Wolf spider. There are a few funny facts about Wolf spiders.
They don't catch their prey with a web. They run them down and catch them.
Some researchers studied escape strategies of wolf spiders. They found the ones with the fastest sprint speeds were more likely to run for it if approached by danger. The slow ones would play dead in hopes of not drawing attention to itself.
Female wolf spiders carry their babies on their abdomen.
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