Missouri Bug Hunt III

[Brian S]

Well we had yet another spectacular Bug Hunt this year. Unfortunately I had to leave Saturday evening however I do have a few pics to share with you all.

Talk about a motley crew!


It may not show up good in this pic but there is a Latrodectus mactans attacking a grasshopper that I threw into its web


Look closely here. There was 2 Aphonopelma hentzi living under the same rock!


Since Collard Lizards usually wont sit still for pics you usually have to catch them lol


The coneflowers were in full glory


This year Josh found a Pygmy Rattlesnake! What a find!!!


There were some crazy dogs running around there! Yeah my dogs are a little crazy at times LOL
Medina


Ruger


Huacho


Habitat pics



Centruroides vittatus

See this stone?

Underneath is an Aphonopelma hentzi preparing to molt

Note the shallow bowl shaped scrape that the spider has prepared

This is a typical tarantula burrow underneath the rocks....

This would be the Aphonopelma hentzi that lives there

At night we had this visitor

 

[crpy]

Cool pics, hope the doggies know to stay away from the pigmys

 

[Brian S]

Cool pics, hope the doggies know to stay away from the pigmys

I am sure they do now! Each dog has been bitten by a copperheads

 

[dtknow]

err...good idea to handle that buttoned bugger?

 

[Brian S]

err...good idea to handle that buttoned bugger?

That wasnt me, I just took the pics.

He should have just put it in his pocket, right?

 

[josh_r]

here is AZ, we find behlei in that EXACT same fashion. the burrows look just like that as well. hentzi are really cool. great post.

 

[Warduke]

Great pics and that is a beautiful pygmy nice find.

 

[John Apple]

nice pics...I really liked the cecropia

 

[GoTerps]

Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing Brian.

Eric

 

[Brian S]

Hey Eric,
When are you gonna join us at a bug hunt?

 

[Scott C.]

When the next one? It's really beautiful out there...

Thanks for the pics Brian!

 

[Brian S]

Scott, It will be next May or June. Road trip!!!! I'll see you then

 

[BACKWOODS]

The bug hunt was awsome me and the girls loved it we will be going next year 2 of A.henzi,s i brought home have already had sacs

 

[Brian S]

Hey Eric,
That isnt the wolf spider you stepped on, is it? LOLOLOL

 

[BACKWOODS]

Wolfspider

HaHa Brian that made me feel bad Brian,s like hey Eric come here and look at this and im like skwarsh what Brian I dont see anything.By the way im getting some of those crazy looking pandinus sp.and a P.maranda,P.tigrinawesseli tomorrow ill post some pics as soon as possible and in a couple of weeks i will prolly be taking my mom and aunt down to see the mountains.How are your C.sculpturatus doing?

 

[Brian S]

They are doing ok

 

[Scott C.]

...Road trip!!!! I'll see you then

You just might.... Sounds like a blast.