Subject —
Wolf or Trapdoor
Geographic location of the bug —
Montgomery, Al
Date: 09/28/2017
Time: 06:18 PM EDT
Hi: I am sending two pics of what I believe are the same spieces of spider. One of the spiders is, what I think to be, quite a unique color. I stupidly forgot to put a coin by that one, however, it was just slightly bigger than the second spider. Both spiders were discovered dead. One was being drug by a spider wasp. We have had a bumper crop of spiders this year. They seem to have exploded along with the record breaking rain in our area. Thank you for checking my photos and I am very curious about the one with the blue abdomen.
How you want your letter signed: Kathy
Dear Kathy,
These are not Trapdoor Spiders, and we concur that they are probably Wolf Spiders and the same species or at least genus.
Update Courtesy of a comment from Michael
Michael identified these as members of the Wolf Spider genus Tigrosa, and based on this BugGuide image and this BugGuide image, we would grade his as Correct.
These are in the genus Tigrosa
Thanks so much. We will update the posting.