Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 11:39
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Predatory Spiders in the Arctic Food Web

Hi my name is Jake and i am a student at St. Marks. My question for you is:

If the climate continues to change, how large can the wolf spider grow?

Wed, 07/18/2012 - 10:01

Nick LaFave

Hi Jake,We really don't know how big they can get. I know that's not a very satisfying answer, but one of the exciting things about science is figuring out what we don't know! One interesting thing that we have learned from studies in Greenland is that both males and females are getting larger with longer growing seasons, but the size of the females has increased more than the males.