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ardeegee · 05-30-2010, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

How cute! So, do they catch flies by jumping at them?

There are thousands of species of jumpers. Look on YouTube, you'll find a bunch of videos-- like this one.

Here is another one I found a few years back wih some sort of caterpillar.

kindlekitten · 05-30-2010, 07:18 PM

are they the ones that are commonly called wolf spiders also? I encourage them around the farm

ardeegee · 05-30-2010, 07:33 PM

No, wolf spiders are a different group.
Here's one of those I found once. It was already dead for some reason.

I remeber once as a child seeing one with a back full of babies.

poohbear_nc · 05-30-2010, 08:16 PM

Wolf spiders are great hunters. The female carries the egg sack and then the babies. They can be aggressive if approached and will bite. Yes, I speak from experience.

kindlekitten · 05-30-2010, 09:13 PM

I thought they were big jumpers as well?

ardeegee · 05-30-2010, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

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.

kindlekitten · 05-31-2010, 04:22 AM

but are relatively beneficial spiders right?

FlorenceArt · 05-31-2010, 04:25 AM

Aren't all spiders beneficial?

GeoffC · 05-31-2010, 04:28 AM

only if they do their job, and that's to catch all those other creepies ....

FlorenceArt · 05-31-2010, 04:33 AM

I remember tiny black jumping spiders, with white eyes. Can't remember where I saw them though. Not in France I think.

kindlekitten · 05-31-2010, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Aren't all spiders beneficial?

well there are some spiders I do not mind playing host to and encouraging to hang around. others like black widows and brown recluses can just find somewhere else

GeoffC · 05-31-2010, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

well there are some spiders I do not mind playing host to and encouraging to hang around. others like black widows and brown recluses can just find somewhere else

next door ?

kindlekitten · 05-31-2010, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

next door ?

not that next door is very close, but something like that, yeah

ardeegee · 05-31-2010, 03:09 PM

Caught another one today!

poohbear_nc · 05-31-2010, 08:03 PM

Your photos actually make spiders look cute! Wouldn't think it was possible!

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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	are they the ones that are commonly called wolf spiders also? I encourage them around the farm

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ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	No, wolf spiders are a different group. Here's one of those I found once. It was already dead for some reason. I remeber once as a child seeing one with a back full of babies.

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poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,472 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Wolf spiders are great hunters. The female carries the egg sack and then the babies. They can be aggressive if approached and will bite. Yes, I speak from experience.

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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	I thought they were big jumpers as well?

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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	but are relatively beneficial spiders right?

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FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	Aren't all spiders beneficial?

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FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	I remember tiny black jumping spiders, with white eyes. Can't remember where I saw them though. Not in France I think.

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ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Caught another one today!

05-31-2010, 08:03 PM	#645
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,472 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Your photos actually make spiders look cute! Wouldn't think it was possible!

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