Someone just posted this on CL in my area of San Antonio Texas that they found. A. chalcodes? or different Aphonopelma,? Id probably going to go pick it up, regadless , if the guy gets back to me. I have no idea what size it is or anything, or a description of where it was found. just the photo.
The way I remember the distribution of A. hentzi and A. anax in Texas is by imagining a line that runs east and west through Austin. A. hentzi occurs north of the line and A. anax occurs south of the line. It's not perfect since there could be some overlap and the thought doesn't take into account the east/ west distribution, but it gets you in idea of what you have based on where a brown tarantula was spotted.
I'm not sure when the A. anax mating season is exactly, but I can tell you for sure that juveniles and females can be found wandering around when they become displaced from their burrow. It occurs more often than you would think. The concept of juveniles and females living their entire lives in one burrow is more of a guideline than a rule. One must never assume a tarantula's sex just because they find it wandering outside of a burrow whether during the mating season or not.
I'm not sure when the A. anax mating season is exactly, but I can tell you for sure that juveniles and females can be found wandering around when they become displaced from their burrow. It occurs more often than you would think. The concept of juveniles and females living their entire lives in one burrow is more of a guideline than a rule. One must never assume a tarantula's sex just because they find it wandering outside of a burrow whether during the mating season or not.
Yeah, its definetely not a mature male!! It didnt look like it, im just wondering where the hell it got displaced from. The guy said it was walking down the side walk, in the suburbs on SA, and he caught it cause, apparently a cat was following it or near by it, at least thats what he says.
I'm not sure when the A. anax mating season is exactly, but I can tell you for sure that juveniles and females can be found wandering around when they become displaced from their burrow. It occurs more often than you would think. The concept of juveniles and females living their entire lives in one burrow is more of a guideline than a rule. One must never assume a tarantula's sex just because they find it wandering outside of a burrow whether during the mating season or not.
That's interesting .Being displaced from the burrow.Are you saying it happens a lot?.I have to wonder what the odds are you find a T going down the road,and its a female?.
We think we know a lot.But we don't know anything, .
That's interesting .Being displaced from the burrow.Are you saying it happens a lot?.I have to wonder what the odds are you find a T going down the road,and its a female?.
We think we know a lot.But we don't know anything, .
The odds of finding a big female walking down the road really depends on where you live. As @Smotzer mentioned above, the A. anax was found in a suburb. When I go out looking at the tarantulas in the suburbs of Dallas, it is very easy to find females just cruising along the sidewalks in some areas, but they are nowhere to be found in others. For the most part up here in North Texas, both males and females have run-ins with people more often in the rural towns undergoing urbanization. One can easily determine where the "tarantula neighborhoods" are because there would be an area of houses, and usually a Wal-Mart, surrounded by open fields and woods. I have no reason to believe the same happens in other parts of country.
The odds of finding a big female walking down the road really depends on where you live. As @Smotzer mentioned above, the A. anax was found in a suburb. When I go out looking at the tarantulas in the suburbs of Dallas, it is very easy to find females just cruising along the sidewalks in some areas, but they are nowhere to be found in others. For the most part up here in North Texas, both males and females have run-ins with people more often in the rural towns undergoing urbanization. One can easily determine where the "tarantula neighborhoods" are because there would be an area of houses, and usually a Wal-Mart, surrounded by open fields and woods. I have no reason to believe it's the same in other parts of country.
Well,that would explain why very few females are found in Southeast Colorado wandering the roads.No Walmarts or carwashes.So,under normal
circumstances,females will remain in their burrows,and not wander about.
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