Hogna lenta is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae.

[2][3][4] Hogna lenta eats mostly small insects, such as crickets, waxworms, and mealworms.

When they are newly emerged from an egg sac, they eat small fruit flies, and each other.

Hogna lenta is naturally equipped with a venom powerful enough to paralyze a small insect.

This venom should pose no threat to a healthy adult human, only feeling like a bee sting.

Spiderlings grow slowly inside the eggs for 5–8 weeks, before finally hatching.

When emerged from an egg sac, they are hardly visible, about the size of a small LED light.