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Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
The wolf spider, Pardosa glacialis, may become one of those that benefit from climate change, for example.
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Jules Howard, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
According to The Spruce, female wolf spiders lay around 100 eggs after mating.
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Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
The Spruce also claims wolf spiders aren't aggressive and won't bite unless provoked
Even after taking a number of precautions, Smith refused to enter the garage for weeks.
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Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1608, in the meaning defined above
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“Wolf spider.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wolf%20spider. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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wolf spider
noun
: any of various active wandering spiders of which most do not build a web but chase and catch their prey
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