Thursday, February 14, 2008

Jake's Spider


Last night I found a spider in my shed. At school we look it up in some books. We discoved it was a Wolf Spider. This is what we found out:
The Wolf spider is native to New Zealand and is common in gardens. For five weeks, Female carries her egg sac. Then her 100 or so young climb on her back to be carried around for an other week, until old enough to look after themselves. They hunt on the ground by day, finding its way with polarised light. They are called a Wolf Spider because of the way the way they run down their pray. There are 12 different species known in New Zealand.
By Jake

2 comments:

Room 1 Waikawa Bay School said...

Cool spider does it have a name.

Room 1 Waikawa Bay School said...

My spider's name is Fred. Thanks for asking.