Product Description: Your skin is sure to crawl when you read all about wolf spiders! This title will get you as close as you'll ever want to be to this spider through beautiful full-bleed photographs. Beginning readers will love the simple, easy-to-read text, bolded glossary terms, and the More Facts section...read more

These scary spiders carry their newborn babies on their backs. A facts spread and informative text fill this book with similar details to introduce this family of spiders to readers. Observe several species of wolf spiders in frightening, close-up photographs.

Spiders are known for spinning webs and waiting for unlucky insects to get caught in the sticky strands. Wolf spiders, however, are not so passive. Readers will learn how these skilled hunters stalk and attack prey, just like the much larger animals they are named after. They will also find out how these eight-legged arachnids reproduce, care for their young, and construct their homes.

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Wolf SpidersAuthor: Murray, JuliePublisher: Abdo GroupPublication Date: 2004/09/01Number of Pages: 24Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 2003061675

Product Description: Wolf spiders dont spin webs to catch their food. What do they do instead? They hunt insects by using their sharp eyesight (they have eight eyes!) and incredible speed. People dont have to worry about these spooky-looking spiders, however...read more

Explains how spiders turn from eggs to adults and how they spin their webs, which ones are poisonous, and which ones are harmless.

Describes the physical characteristics, hunting habits, and reproduction of the wolf spider. (view table of contents)

Introduces the small to medium-sized spider which has excellent eyesight, hunts on the ground, and lives all over the world including in the Arctic and on high mountains (view table of contents)