Can you Identify this species of tarantula in this movie?

[beanb142002]

Go to the link below, watch the video and see if you can identify the tarantula species in the movie.

This scene practically got me hooked on tarantulas when I first saw it when I was around 6 or 7 years old.

I have been fascinated with them ever since.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNjIMfqZKp8&NR=1

If it is not hyperlinked, copy and paste it to your browser.

I'd greatly appreciate any possible IDs of this tarantula.

I really want to know the tarantula species that started it all.

 

[Mushroom Spore]

Looks like the humble G. rosea to me.

 

[presurcukr]

B. vagan?? cant tell :wall:after looking at other clip with the T walking away it looks more like G.pulchra

 

[jinx]

When I google "home alone tarantula." I keep reading that it was a Rose Hair.

 

[saminthemiddle]

It certainly looks like a Grammastola to me too, but I don't think it's a G rosea, it's too dark.

I vote G. pulchra. That kid has an expensive little T!

The other thing that makes me thing G. pulchra other than its looks is its behavior and the fact that the director/producer is letting a kid handle one on set. Even a Brachypelma wouldn't be that cooperative when grabbed like that.

 

[Mushroom Spore]

The other thing that makes me thing G. pulchra other than its looks is its behavior and the fact that the director/producer is letting a kid handle one on set. Even a Brachypelma wouldn't be that cooperative when grabbed like that.

a) G. pulchra is no innately more docile than the average docile G. rosea (occasional rare psycho rosie doesn't count, since they obv. aren't USING a psycho spider). Plus that spider looks brown to me in the only scene with any kind of decent lighting.

b) Some Brachys ARE that docile, actually.

EDIT: This random T trivia site also says rosea. http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Bug, Tarantula.htm

 

[presurcukr]

if it is G.rosea it is one of the darkest ones i've seen that's y i said G.pulchra

 

[Mushroom Spore]

if it is G.rosea it is one of the darkest ones i've seen that's y i said G.pulchra

The lighting is bad (especially on the stairs), like I said. That will make ANY spider look black. Pause it around :21 when it's on the guy's face, you can see the brown shade a bit. Especially the legs.

My rosea looks the same color in dim light, I don't know why that's weird.

 

[dantediss]

its a g.rosea in the begining of home alone it shows kevin and all their cousins in kevins brothers room looking at it.... better lighting and you get a decent close up shot .. def a lovely rosey

 

[B-fish]

definetly not a G.rosea i know in the beginning of the movie when they show the T escaping from its cage it is a G.rosea but that wasn't one. I can't beleive how they treated that tarantula, picking it up like its a piece of shit and then putting it on the guy, then the guy screams when the T is right by his mouth then he throws it, terrible.

 

[saminthemiddle]

What are you talking about B-Fish? Everything I saw in that clip was safe T handling procedure. Except for putting the T on the guys face which is pretty risky.

You DO know Hollywood takes really good care of their Ts right?

 

[Aschamne]

If you look at the bottom of the spider as he's going toward the guy, the abdomen is orange which says A. seemani to me.

Art

 

[Zoltan]

My bet is rosea too. If it'd be semanni I think the white stripes on its legs would be visible when it's seen from above.

 

[Mikey71_DK]

Thinks it's a Grammastola allright...A G. aureostriata

 

[GailC]

I say semanni too. I did some screen shots and then edited them in paint shop, the orange belly was clear, as were the leg stripes.

 

[B-fish]

when the little boy picked it up that definetly wasn't safe handling, then when it was on the guys face and he picks it up and throws it that is just uncalled for, A.seemani when he throws it you see the underside of the T and it looks just like an A.seemani

 

[Zoltan]

Well, the T wasn't harmed so I wouldn't worry about, B-fish.

 

[B-fish]

how do you know it wasn't harmed, you can't say that for sure.

 

[beanb142002]

I read somewhere where they did not insert the scream audio until after the scene was shot.

It looked to good of a spider to be G. Rosea.

But if it is G. Rosea, it must have been a rare phase.

 

[radicaldementia]

It definitely doesn't look like a rosea, you can clearly see the abdomen is a bright orange compared to the rest of the body, plus the legs look to have stripes.

Also remember, they could have used two different T's in the different scenes of the movie, or maybe even in the same scene :wall:

here's some color enhanced screenshots that may help