I don’t know about you but when I head off on holiday the only spiders I want to see are preferably dead and preserved in a display case. Well imagine on your next far flung exotic holiday coming across a massive hairy meat-eating wolf spider!
This could be a reality thanks to global warming which scientists say is causing spiders to grow bigger and in particular the scary sounding hairy meat-eating wolf spiders which are described as robust and agile hunters and they have eight eyes! The females are particularly benefitting from earlier springs and later winters.
So next time you scream like a girl at the tiny spider in the bathtub, just remember the wolf spider that could be lurking. Don’t kill the spider, put it outside instead and you might avoid bad spider karma!
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I’m surprised at these comments. Wolf spiders live everywhere in the U.S.
and are found all over the place - and are both large and small. And all large
spiders eat protein (meat) in most forms - I would have expected a tarantula-type spider (like the S. American Bird Eater) to be described this way. They eat baby birds, small mice, all forms of insects, small frogs, and lizards, and are generally the
largest species of spider in the world - and probably the most frightening, although
not the most venomous.
If you would like a picture of a nice-sized wolf spider from my garage in New England,
let me know. He/she makes the one in that picture look graceful and adorable.