Wolf Spiders are very good mothers. When i brought a car load of rocks from my friend Cindy’s property over to mine to build the rock wall around the chicken pen a lot of snakes and spiders hitched a ride. When i shoveled the rocks out of the trunk a big wolf spider had jumped out from the rocks carrying an egg sac. I had seen it going into the trunk as well but wolf spiders are fast and i knew i wasnt going to catch it so i left it alone. It had an egg sac with it when Cindy had shoveled it in. Now it still had the egg sac. It dropped it as it was running and doubled back and returned for it. It picked the egg sac up once again and took off running across my property. I figured it would find a good spot and hatch its babies and i’d have some more beneficial spiders so i wished it good luck and went on with my task. Later while i was working i noticed it about 15 feet from where i had seen it run and it was still holding onto that egg sac. Such a good mom.
One night i was doing the chores and i noticed an extra fuzzy looking wolf spider in the stream of my headlamp. As i examined her closer i realized she wasnt fuzzy so much as she was carrying numerous amounts of tiny baby wolf spiders on her back. She was covered in them and they were all just hanging on. I thought, “what a good mom.” How good at this do you have to be to catch dinner without the use of a web while also shuttling a small sports team of babies around on your back? it was a cool find. I told her not to go near the porch as unfortunately due to my poor insight, it was now pretty poisoned, as indicated by the gaggles of spiders, beetles, kissing bugs, moths, and praying mantis carcasses that had dared to step foot on it and were now lying motionless and upside down.