tarantula wolf spider

Description:

As with other wolf spiders, the silken sac containing over one hundred eggs is carried attached to the mother's spineretes, and then after they hatch the baby spiders climb on their mother's abdomen and ride around with her for some time until they are sufficiently mature to survive on their own

Habitat:

sunny and arid areas

Notes:

In common with all other spiders (except the Uloboridae) Lycosa tarantula possess venom. Venom is important to the spider as a means to kill its prey, and, secondarily, to protect itself. Evolutionarily, the venoms were tailored for subduing insect prey, and mammal species can have vastly different reactions to the same spider venom. The venom of the Lycosidae is not particularly toxic to human beings, and is no more painful than the sting of a bee.