Hawaiin Tarantulas?

[Mojo Jojo]

Anybody know of any tarantulas that are native to Hawaii?

How about introduced species?

Jon

 

[pelo]

The Brady Bunch were in Hawaii.They had a tarantula encounter.I believe it was a B.smithi.It was in Jan's tote bag I believe...There was this lady.....lol....peace...

 

[L_mactans]

As far as I know there are no Tarantulas native to Hawaii. Created from lava, and no real way (until people came along) for the Ts to have migrated across the ocean to settle.
And I thought it was an Aphonopelma on the Brady's Hawaii vacation, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Kelly (L_mac)

 

[Brandon]

As far as i know it was A chalcodes or something like that

Sincerely,

Brandon

 

[Mojo Jojo]

Originally posted by L_mactans
As far as I know there are no Tarantulas native to Hawaii. Created from lava, and no real way (until people came along) for the Ts to have migrated across the ocean to settle.

Kelly (L_mac)

........................I knew that............

....................just testin' ya...........................

Jon

 

[Phillip]

The Brady bunch T was B smithi.

Phil

 

[Botar]

I think the consensus was that it was an Aphonopelma, but they couldn't decide on the species.

Botar

 

[Immortal_sin]

it was an Aphonopelma, I think anyone that guessed that genus got a prize

 

[Phillip]

Perhaps I'm wrong but I could have sworn the T I remembered seeing had orange knees on it. But then it has been many moons since I saw that one. I did a search on Brady Bunch episode pics and saw some cool stuff but sadly no pic of the T in question.

Phil

 

[Botar]

I thought the same thing, but they showed the clip from the episode and I can tell you it wasn't a B. smithi.

Botar

 

[caligulathegod]

It should air on TV land in about 2 1/2 weeks, if they keep their schedual right.

 

[MizM]

I lived there for two years and never heard of a native tarantula. The cane spiders get HUGE, they have amazing centipedes. One thing I missed, skunks! They don't have skunks or snakes.