You are asking me? Haha, kidding aside, I believe it is a wolf spider. However, I've had a lot of difficultly trying to identify a couple spiders I have seen in Alaska through the internet. It seems like there are some different varieties of wolf spider (some much, much fuzzier) and there are even debates if a certain kinds of spiders live in Alaska or not (see brown recluse).
The best I could conclude is that these must be wolf spiders--we've been seeing a lot of them this last week (spring has actually arrived now).
Now that you mention it, I never spot then near a web. I always find them scouting about, this one perhaps on the hunt through the grass. Seems like something so obvious, but it doesn't pop up like a flag until someone points it out.
Thanks for sharing your expert knowledge of the natural world. :)
You are asking me? Haha, kidding aside, I believe it is a wolf spider. However, I've had a lot of difficultly trying to identify a couple spiders I have seen in Alaska through the internet. It seems like there are some different varieties of wolf spider (some much, much fuzzier) and there are even debates if a certain kinds of spiders live in Alaska or not (see brown recluse).
The best I could conclude is that these must be wolf spiders--we've been seeing a lot of them this last week (spring has actually arrived now).
If it's nowhere near a web, that might be indicative.
Now that you mention it, I never spot then near a web. I always find them scouting about, this one perhaps on the hunt through the grass. Seems like something so obvious, but it doesn't pop up like a flag until someone points it out.
Thanks for sharing your expert knowledge of the natural world. :)
Enthusiastic and well practiced amateur, more like! I really enjoy these sorts of IDs.