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Arachnoprince
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If you are already on vacation you have to pursue your hobby there too, of course. Accordingly, I went on a mountain tour with my daughter today. I've heard rumors that disgusting and large spiders have been spotted on mountain tours on the Croatian island of Krk. Due to fuzzy photos on the net, we came to the conclusion: "Could be a Hogna!". This was what we had to find out today!
The ascent was a small but nice adventure, the variety of insects was impressive!
The highest point of Krk offered a wonderful view, although my eyes were more on the ground. A fall here would be fatal, as the ground consists exclusively of pointed and sharp-edged stones, and I was already in spider fever
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500 meters further we found the first tubes in the ground. On closer inspection, there was always a new spider bed within a rough radius of 2.5 meters! All were filled, we were able to pick up about 12 Hogna radiatias out of their building. All with young animals on their backs (of course, it's September already) ...
We found the Hognas in this area:
Finally we were able to find a female who was roaming around with the young outside of the hiding place. We kidnapped it without further ado to the next sheep shelter and took some photos in the prepared plastic vessel ...
Unfortunately, I can only show cell phone pictures because I don't have a PC with me when I'm on vacation.
My daughter and I booked the trip as a success and we were very happy!
Edit: my first thought was wrong. We did not find Hogna radiatia, it is a Lycosa tarantula (Tarantula apuliae)!
If you are already on vacation you have to pursue your hobby there too, of course. Accordingly, I went on a mountain tour with my daughter today. I've heard rumors that disgusting and large spiders have been spotted on mountain tours on the Croatian island of Krk. Due to fuzzy photos on the net, we came to the conclusion: "Could be a Hogna!". This was what we had to find out today!
The ascent was a small but nice adventure, the variety of insects was impressive!
The highest point of Krk offered a wonderful view, although my eyes were more on the ground. A fall here would be fatal, as the ground consists exclusively of pointed and sharp-edged stones, and I was already in spider fever
.
500 meters further we found the first tubes in the ground. On closer inspection, there was always a new spider bed within a rough radius of 2.5 meters! All were filled, we were able to pick up about 12 Hogna radiatias out of their building. All with young animals on their backs (of course, it's September already) ...
We found the Hognas in this area:
Finally we were able to find a female who was roaming around with the young outside of the hiding place. We kidnapped it without further ado to the next sheep shelter and took some photos in the prepared plastic vessel ...
Unfortunately, I can only show cell phone pictures because I don't have a PC with me when I'm on vacation.
My daughter and I booked the trip as a success and we were very happy!
Edit: my first thought was wrong. We did not find Hogna radiatia, it is a Lycosa tarantula (Tarantula apuliae)!
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