look guys ima be real- before getting that deep into worm I kinda assumed the fandoms annoyance at wildbow surrounding ships to be like. a generic queer fandom thing with an author writing ok hetronormative romance and doubling down again any other fam interpretation. but. um
Being the Wolf Spider, the single superhero in all of New York was rarely easy. Being a babysitter to your goddaughter May Parker was somehow even more tough.
You were trying to get your mail and jostle little May when you heard someone approach you. Normally your spider sense would’ve picked it up but at the same time, this presence put you at ease.
“Need a little help there?” A female asked you.
You turned around and came face to face with the most beautiful woman you had ever seen. Skin so beautiful, hair as black as your suit. Her eyes the richest chocolate and a smile that made your heart thump wildly.
"N-No I'm good" you try to speak to this beautiful woman.
"Cute little girl" she smiles at little May, "she yours?"
"It's my goddaughter, her parents named me honorary babysitter" you state with a little smile
"Sam" she gives a little wave
"Y/N" you answer back
"What is it you do Y/N?" Somehow just hearing your name leave her lips makes it sound like sweet poetry. You nearly blurted out that you were the Wolf Spider. But luckily your two brain cells worked.
"I'm in...security. With a little hand in web design" you shrug it off.
"My sister and I are moving in on floor three." Sam tries to explain as she gestures to a few boxes near her.
"Well neighbor," you offer, "I'm gonna go put May down for her nap and if you want I can help with the boxes."
You could tell she seemed a little hesitant at first; maybe there was some trust issues there. But then she bit her lip and smiled, "I'd like that"
And just like that, Samantha Carpenter had welcomed you into her life and into her heart. It took a while but the web you've been weaving with her is definitely one for the history books in the Spiderverse.
Would it be possible to list some of the general differences between wolf and grass spiders? Thank you!
Sure! Grass spiders are funnel weavers, so you will often find them in funnel-like webs, usually with a big flat sheet of web around it. I see them often on bushes or in corners of siding and windows on houses. And of course over grass. Here's a pic of what you'd commonly see:
Agelenopsis sp. photo by kaden_slone04
Wolf spiders on the other hand are active hunters, so you'd more often see them just running around freely or maybe in a burrow in the ground. They're a common sight in gardens, sometimes females carrying a little white egg sac from her abdomen.
Grass spiders and wolf spiders can look sort of similar, but they're easy to distinguish from one another with a few key features: the eyes and the spinnerets.
Of course there are a bunch of different species with lots of different markings so this is a generalization, but I'll choose two of the more common wolf spiders in the US, the rabid wolf, Rabidosa rabida, and Tigrosa annexa, which as far as I know has no common name. For grass spiders it can be difficult to determine exact species from photos so I'll just use the Agelenopsis genus.
The easiest way to ID wolves is with their eyes! They have 8, with 4 on the bottom row, two great big forward facing eyes in the middle, and then two on top of their head:
Rabidosa rabida photo by tshahan
And from above:
Tigrosa annexa photo by wildcarrot
The eyes are almost always very obvious and easy to spot.
Grass spiders have two eyes on the bottom row, four in the middle, and two on top. The two center eyes in the middle row are not as exaggerated as the two large wolf eyes. Some views of their eyes:
Agelenopsis sp. photos by jasonjdking and tmurray74
Grass spiders also have long, visible spinnerets sticking off the end of the abdomen:
Agelenopsis sp. photo by littlelegofan
Wolves do have spinnerets, but they're not as long and pointy:
R. rabida by schoenitz and T. annexa by wendybirdsbyrv
I found this very nice and majestic lady in the Admin area at work. I didn’t want anyone to hurt her, so I took her outside to a covert area with lots of nooks and crannies.
She is a wolfspider.
Her leg span of apx 2.25in (maybe a little larger; but when i’m doubt I round down).
I had to scoop her up on an index card before transferring her to my hand. She was not appreciative of my aid attempts. *defensive posture activated!*
a field wolf spider (Hogna lenta) squeezing down her burrow to consume her freshly-wrangled roach dinner in peace
unlike some other wolf spiders that construct burrows, H. lenta seems to be strictly nocturnal and their burrow entrances are well hidden and practically impossible to find. I imagine this helps them avoid the Anoplius spider wasps that are often seen hunting for them during the day.
i can’t see the new spiderverse movie yet, so i’m sating myself by making my own spider-man. yes, i know there’s already a wolf spider. i don’t care. that one’s bogus and mine is so cool