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Excellent read, thanks! The "tarantulas repuire heat" theory is one that I've personally debated against. I live in the St Louis area, and recently learned that tarantulas (reportedly A. hentzi) can be found just west of St. Louis, where the average low is 22F (-7) during winter. I also...

I recently picked up an E. murinus from the local reptile store. It was an impulse buy. She was just too pretty lol. She's also full of spunk which I can appreaciate...

25 I started late.

I remember being very nervous at the sight of golden silk orbweavers in southern Louisiana. In the cypress swamps I used to fish in they were all over the place. They are quite intense looking. Grass spiders and house centipedes used to freak me out when I was a kid too. Since then I have...

Yea, I am going to be asking around soon :)

... and I am amazed at how much they grow.:eek: This is him in late April, when I got him. He was under 3". This is him today, two molts later, at about 6"

Here is Nat Geo: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091021-largest-web-spinning-spider.html It doesn't have a picture of this species, but a poor picture of it's relative, N. inaurata. The buzz is that it can reach 5 inches, which doesn't seem much bigger than some of the giant...

We seem to have a troll on our hands. No where did I claim medical expertise, nor is there anything suggested that my words was medical advice. I didn't even claim I knew what that was, just what it could be. My claim was and still is that the mark on the OP's leg could have been any...

I see 3 main problems with assuming this is a brown recluse bite. Recluses are NOT known to be in SW Florida. It's outside of their natural range. This is their reported range: http://bugguide.net/node/view/33494 I have heard that there are isolated populations in central Florida, near...

These are not my pictures, I found these pictures while answering a question on yahoo answers asking what it was. The asker said that the spider is from Malaysia. Any ideas on a species or at least genus? What I found most intersting about this jumping spider is the front legs. The...

My rosie is the same way, although not as voracious. If I poke her gently with the tongs she will face them and even chase them. If I give her the chance she will jump on and try to sick her fangs in them, but will drop the tongs once she identifies it as "not food".

I gotta ask.. what species are these? I use cages with similar vents (from tarantulacages.com, which look very similar to yours), and I own a S. rubronitens, P. regalis, and a C. andersoni. I have found the S. rubronitens clinging to the vents before, hanging upside down, but I haven't found...

I have kept a pet brown recluse for the past few months, mostly for curiosity and to observe how exactly they behave. For the most part, the little gal has been boring, spending most of her time hiding and making a small tangle web. Well, today I discovered she is going to be a mommy. While...

The spider they found in the produce was probably a harmless huntsman spider. They have shown 3 different spiders in the news reports on the spider found. They showed the top down image of the Cupiennius sp likely taken from google images, Techuser's image of the correct wandering spider...

Actually, Megarachne was a Eurypterid, or "sea scorpion". Eurypterids were not crustaceans, but were a group of creatures related to the Arachnids and horseshoe crabs (same subphylum; Chelicerata). Brontoscorpio, as far as I can research, was a giant meter long prehistoric scorpion. As...

I gotta say.. when I saw this article online last night the first thing I thought when I saw the video of the spider they found was "Thats not wandering spider, that definitely a huntsman".. Carapace is all wrong, eyes are all wrong, arboreal tendencies are all wrong.. I am glad they posted...

After doing a bit of research, it does look like a Gorgyrella sp, which is of the family Idiopidae, not Ctenizidae. In fact, it looks almost identical to this photo: http://www.tarantulacanada.ca/gallery/images/819.php

I am not sure how easily you can identify a trap door spider based on photo, but what could you tell me about this guy? I am not too keen on non-tarantula mygalomorphs. It was sold to me as a Ctenizidae sp. Could anyone narrow it down to genus and suggest if it should be kept moist or dry...

That is most definately an Agelenopsis sp., "grass spider". I live in Illinois and the are the second most common spider I find here in the midwest plains(first would be cellar spiders). In the summer I'd have hundreds of their funnel webs in my yard. I cought a MM last summer to observe...

I have heard that A. seemanni looks different depending on where it came from. My A. seemanni is about 2.5" and is a light tan. The knee striping is a peach color, so it is not easily seen. My Stripe Knee on Flickr