How to Use wolf spider in a Sentence

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• But other species, such as shrubs and the wolf spider, are thriving.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 19 June 2019
• When they're found in homes, wolf spiders tend to live in basements, crawlspaces and breezeways.
  — Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2018
• Some other names for the wolf spider are the ground spider and the hunting spider.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
• Some other names for the wolf spider are the Ground Spider and the Hunting Spider.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2019
• Pascoe said the timing to catch such a sight really depends upon the species of wolf spider.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Storm and Lima bred crickets that had never seen a wolf spider before.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2010
• Iberian tarantulas, which are a type of wolf spider, live in arid regions of the Iberian Peninsula.
  — Nala Rogers, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2014
• An attempt to eradicate a wolf spider led to an apartment fire and residents looking for new homes.
  — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
• The two most common spider bites are from house spiders, specifically the jumping spider and wolf spider.
  — Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• Fortunately for the researchers (though not the research spiders), playing dead is a typical wolf spider come-on.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• If a pregnant female is exposed to a wolf spider, her experiences affect her unborn young.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2010
• For their experiment, Preston, Yap, and other students on the team used a thin needle to inject air into a dead wolf spider’s prosoma.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2022
• Enlarge / Rice University graduate student Faye Yap with a deceased wolf spider for use as a necrobotic gripper.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022
• According to the Penn State Department of Entomology, fishing spiders are similar to wolf spiders in size, shape and color.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2018
• In this case, Dickman says, wolf spiders eat other insects that dunnarts also like to eat, so hunting wolf spiders not only provides a tasty meal but also removes a source of competition for other food.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
• Humans aren’t the only ones who sometimes find themselves in need of Plan B: Some female wolf spiders have developed a natural strategy for killing off unwanted sperm after a male has deposited it in their body.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• According to National Geographic, stunning new calculations show that in the Arctic tundra, arctic wolf spiders outweigh arctic wolves in biomass by a ratio of 80 to 1.
  — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2018
• Matt Persons, an arachnologist at Susquehanna University who has studied mating strategies in wolf spiders, found the results fascinating.
  — National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024