lycosidae

A darker female

Went out and caught four big Hogna Carolinensis

Found a small creek full of these guys! Everywhere I look- santrita!

A mother shoreline wolf with her brood. There are thousands of these guys everywhere here!

a beautiful pallid female from a riverbank.

Where i live now, these two occur together and can actually hybridize, being sibling taxa and very closely related. It's not very common, however, and requires a small carolinensis male. I thought this was just a really big coloradensis (never exceeds 3"), til i checked her venter.

Success. This female in particular really liked him and solicited with repeated leg flicks. She made no attempt to harm him afterward

Introducing the male to the female. He's really big just a few mm short of 3". Great care must be taken when introducing male wolf spiders, especially geolycosa which can be very aggressive toward the males. Ive had one chase the male and kill him right after mating.

sosippinae is a subfamily of Lycosidae known as 'Funnel-wolves', of which behave similarly to agelenidae. Spiderlings of sosippus truly hunt cooperatively to tackle larger prey, as prey falls into the web, the spiderlings will quickly swarm all over it and subdue it.

Ive noticed these guys like to add a single long twig, im unsure why but it may be for better prey detection.

a large male i found, gonna try one more round with these guys- they are not easy to breed! This genus is probably the most beautiful of all wolf spiders, IMO.

Breeding this species was really interesting for me. Difficult, too. Seems the young have to observe their siblings hunting to understand what to do with food. Maybe next time i'll keep the slings together in their own communal enclosure and let them teach each other how to be spiders.

peek-a-boo!

mature male. the species epithet 'antelucana' means 'most active at dawn or dusk'- referring to antelucana's crepuscular behavior.

Cute lil babies. cannot be fed melanogaster. they require true flightless fruitflies (D. hydei). once past the first couple of instars they will accept baby red runners

Geolycosa gosoga

you can tell which ones will grow huge- this 4i sling is already an inch almost.

yet another 200 mouths to feed lol

white coxa form

success