Wolf Spider

Word WOLF SPIDER
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“Oo-boo-boo” — the long-legged wolf-spider — and tell where it would be found next day hugging its dilly-bag? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of the venomous phalangia there are two; one that resembles the so-called wolf-spider, small, speckled, and tapering to a point; it moves with leaps, from which habit it is nicknamed ‘the flea’: the other kind is large, black in colour, with long front legs; it is heavy in its movements, walks slowly, is not very strong, and never leaps. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In passing, I may state that once, while confined to my room for a long time by sickness, I became intimately acquainted with a wolf-spider which seemed to take an æsthetic delight in her toilet. ❋ James Weir (1881)

The rash fury with which the female wolf-spider defends her young is very admirable; but the admiration she excites is mingled with other feelings when we remember that the brave mother proves to her consort a cruel and cannibal spouse. ❋ Unknown (1881)

The tarantula is of the wolf-spider family, whose habit is to chase their prey, not lie in ambush. ❋ Various (1873)

a romancer; but as I myself had been attacked and pursued, both when on foot and on horseback, by a large wolf-spider, common on the pampas, I did not join in the laugh. ❋ Unknown (1881)

(But "there are many species of spider in Palestine: some which spin webs, like the common garden spider; some which dig subterranean cells and make doors in them, like the well-known trap-door spider of southern Europe; and some which have no web, but chase their prey upon the ground, like the hunting-and the wolf-spider." ❋ Unknown (1884)

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