This is a Lycosidae family spider, a wolf spider. There are more than 120 species and 2800 genera. They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Two of the wolf spider's eight eyes are large and prominent this distinguishes them from nursery web spiders, whose eyes are all of roughly equal size. Wolf spiders are unique in the way that they carry their eggs. The egg sac, a round, silken globe, is attached to the spinnerets at the end of the abdomen, allowing the spider to carry her unhatched young with her. Wolf spiders play an important role in natural population control of insects and are often considered "beneficial bugs" due to their predation of pest species within farms and gardens. Observed near Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), Petén, Guatemala.

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