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Photo by mrh
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Description:

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.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
mrh
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:)
Mandy Hollman
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
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PublishedJune 6, 2013

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