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Old 05-30-2010, 11:04 PM   #636
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten View Post
I thought they were big jumpers as well?
No, some of them might can jump, but they aren't from the clade called the "jumping spiders." The wolf spiders I know, though, are ambush hunters-- hey live in a "funnel web" and run out and grab things that come near them:

http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/200...b-wolf-spider/

According to wikipedia (I'm not a spiderologst) jumping spiders are in the family Salticidae and wolf spiders are the family in Lycosidae.
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