some results from a trip to california

[josh_r]

hey guys, here are some pics of specimens collected on my trip to cali. i havnt taken pics of all the species we found yet. the pics here are not very good. i was tired and just wanted to get it over with. i am going to retake all the pics with better light and actually use my camera properly next time.

these pictures do the spiders NO, ABSOLUTELY NO justice! they are stunning in person!

here goes

aphonopelma mojave

aphonopelma joshua

calisoga theveneti (pics do the color NO justice)

female (in good light, metallic green with metallic blue highlights)

male (in good light, bright metallic green all over)

calisoga longitarsus (in good light, bright silver all over)

i will post better pics as soon as i take them as well as pics of the rest of the critters we found which were

bothriocyrtum californicum
hebestatus theveneti
aliatypus californicum
aliatypus sp?
uroctonus mordax
anuroctonus phaiodatctylus
super aggro aphonopelma from north eastern cali
aphonopelma iodius??
and some other random stuff

i cant wait to get back out there again.

-josh

 

[John Apple]

Nice Josh very nice:worship:
I see the A joshua are very much like the paloma in attutude. Very neet man, your pics have made me respect the beauty of north American tarantulas.
heh that calisoga reminds me of a silver OBT
amazing man simply amazing

 

[josh_r]

wait till you see these guys in person john. be expecting a package soon.

so i guess people are not very into the less known natives..... thats too bad.

 

[jen650s]

Boy, the A. mojave and A. joshua look like they'd really like a piece of you . Great pics.

 

[John Apple]

wait till you see these guys in person john. be expecting a package soon.

so i guess people are not very into the less known natives..... thats too bad.

I would give it time Josh, just because they are not blue or large does not mean they are not amazing creatures, The paloma you sent me are very cool and any else reading this should contact Josh as his prices are very fair. This guy does what he does because he has a true passion for OUR tarantulas

 

[josh_r]

Boy, the A. mojave and A. joshua look like they'd really like a piece of you . Great pics.

oddly enough, it was the calisoga theveneti that got a piece of me... it hurt for hours!

 

[GoTerps]

Thanks for sharing Josh.

The dwarf Aphonopelma are very cool.

I saw a female from California in Dave's collection that looks like the mojave you found.

Eric

 

[hamfoto]

Josh...sweet pics! Man...I love those guys.

The attitude of those little dwarfs is awesome!

Chris

 

[SNAFU]

Verrry cool pics. I really like the looks of both the little aphonopelma sp. Great pics, can't wait to see the rest.

 

[cacoseraph]

I would give it time Josh, just because they are not blue or large does not mean they are not amazing creatures, The paloma you sent me are very cool and any else reading this should contact Josh as his prices are very fair. This guy does what he does because he has a true passion for OUR tarantulas

the C. theventi ARE blue... in sunlight they are the most amazing metallic blue-green and a velvet black background color

and mean as piss... josh was doing restrained holds on some to get them into capture cups but i was too scared =P

whoops, supposed to be doing work. i will write more about our trip later... but it was AWESOME!

 

[Veneficus]

I would give it time Josh, just because they are not blue or large does not mean they are not amazing creatures,

Awesome pics! I agree with John; I think by posting these pictures, you're already educating people to what amazing little tarantulas they are!

I had no idea so many native species existed, and I'm quite jealous that I don't live out there anymore. :-(

It sounds like you know your species--have you thought about writing a paper?

M--

 

[John Apple]

Awesome pics! I agree with John; I think by posting these pictures, you're already educating people to what amazing little tarantulas they are!

I had no idea so many native species existed, and I'm quite jealous that I don't live out there anymore. :-(

It sounds like you know your species--have you thought about writing a paper?

M--

Heh Heh Yeah ol Joss does know his stuff, the kid is a wealth of information and a helluva nice guy

 

[josh_r]

Heh Heh Yeah ol Joss does know his stuff, the kid is a wealth of information and a helluva nice guy

john, your ruining my badboy reputation lol!

so i took a good look at the C. theveneti at noon day sun and they were spectacular looking so im going to take pics at noon and see if they turn out better. i guess it could be the intensity of light hitting them. the pics posted were taken just before sunset.

-josh

 

[cacoseraph]

john, your ruining my badboy reputation lol!

so i took a good look at the C. theveneti at noon day sun and they were spectacular looking so im going to take pics at noon and see if they turn out better. i guess it could be the intensity of light hitting them. the pics posted were taken just before sunset.

-josh

intensity and possibly spectrum. sunlight has a wide range of colors in it... you might need one special little tiny piece of the spectrum to bounce just right off the magic part of the exo

they are AMAZING in the right light... seriously such a pretty spider. in my apartment incandescant lights they look almost black with just a hint of the bluegreen goodness. my neighbors put on their tolerant-of-the-overly-enthusiastic-bug-guy faces when i showed them =P

the fluorescing millis impressed though!

 

[AneesasMuse]

Beautiful finds! Thanks for sharing them with us, too!

As for capturing the colors on the Calisoga, you might try a green background to get the blue to pop ..or try a red background, just for the heck of it. (I'm having a brain toot and can't recall which colors work for making others become more evident )

I have to try and convince hubby that road trips can be "field" trips, too He shouldn't mind these too much... not as BIG as some of my T's in the house!

 

[josh_r]

I have to try and convince hubby that road trips can be "field" trips, too He shouldn't mind these too much... not as BIG as some of my T's in the house!

road trips almost always turn up good results mine was a blast. just be sure you bring enough containers...as we learned. lol

 

[John Apple]

That's funny , I learned that lesson many years ago ...now I have a sleeve of deli's and lids, snake bag or two and a couple of larger containers in a box in my car.

 

[cacoseraph]

oh... i brought TONS of containers


it was the *lids* to the containers that i forgot :/


dif color backgrounds! good idea



also, i had a fun display opportunity today at a pet store (Pet & Jungle) open house that scabies represented at

i had the A. paloma and A. mojave that josh gave me next to ftorres' penultimate (?) male T. blondi hehehehe

 

[josh_r]

i had the A. paloma and A. mojave that josh gave me next to ftorres' penultimate (?) male T. blondi hehehehe

that spider is not mojave, its one of those iodius things.

 

[John Apple]

The paloma's too man.., what a personality for such a small tarantula...they come at ya like an unsteady slow drunken samurai with two swords