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This spider walked into our classroom from beneath the door to the outside. I happened to have a Petri dish handy so I caught it. The glare from the dish was awful so I transferred him or her to the cup for the photo. The bottom of the cup has a diameter of 1.5 inches! Thanks to the kids in class for keeping relatively calm for this one.
Spotted on Jun 6, 2013
Submitted on Jun 6, 2013
2 Comments
Thanks, Mandy, for the comment. It was such a perfect classroom event (since I was teaching about Project NOAH as it happened) that the kids accused me of staging it! It does appear to be a female wolf spider and I was able to show your comment & help id'ing the species to the kids the following class - so I must've staged that too! Perfect:)
Wow, that's a formidable-looking critter. Maybe a wolf spider (family Lycosidae)? I'm not sure, though. Hard to tell with the lighting.
With the round abdomen, I'm thinking it's a female.
Cool story. What a great educational moment!
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1967
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider...