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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Alopecosa » Alopecosa aculeata
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Bark Fox - Alopecosa aculeata - female
Copyright © 2012 Steve McKechnie

Bark Fox - Alopecosa aculeata - Female
Torch River Provincial Forest, Saskatchewan, Canada
June 19, 2012
Size: ~11.5 mm.
Found near the perimeter of an area covered in pine bark surrounded by saskatoon, wild rose, blueberry bushes, grassy meadow.
5699 Alopecosa aculeata

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Bark Fox - Alopecosa aculeata - female Bark Fox - Alopecosa aculeata - female
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Contributed by Steve McKechnie on 20 June, 2012 - 4:02am
Last updated 20 June, 2012 - 9:09am

yes Alopecosa aculeata looks right
Moved from Spiders. The other species A kochi looks a tiny bit different. Are you getting this ID'd by John?
… Lynette Elliott, 20 June, 2012 - 9:09am login or register to post comments

 
No.
Swollen abdomen. She is going to a mound of well rotted sawdust and compost manure mixed with sand, covered by 6 inches of mulch and bark.
… Steve McKechnie, 20 June, 2012 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

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