Comments & ID Thoughts
Wolf spider.
Wondering what the red spots are
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- Submitted: Jul 22, 2022
- Photographed: Jul 22, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Sabattus, Maine, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi there I am a green novice who’s particularly bad with wolf spiders so forgive me if im wrong. I think this might be a type of grass spider maybe in Agelenopsis. .. thats cause of the long spinnerettes and the spines on the legs. The red dots I am more confident of. They are parasitic mites. They feed off a host and then drop off and find another spider host. They don’t kill the host but I don’t think anyone knows if the spider is negatively affected by the interaction or not..