Spiders getting bigger!

As if global warming isn't giving us enough to worry about,
Group of Danish scientists wondered whether global warming would make the "wolf spiders" of northeastern Greenland bigger, since longer summers mean more hunting time. The little-known species "Pardosa glacialis" grows as long as 1.6 inches. They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly solitary and hunt alone.
Some are opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing it over short distances.
Some will wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow.


The spiders can live for at least two years, and the researchers found that, in years when spring came early, the animals grew larger, on average.