Look who decided to watch me work today

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

Don't know what kind it is but we've got lots of space to share. :wholewideworld:

[Lil Missy]

1. Ewwww! What the hell is that?? A spider?

[Lex]

2. My God!!!1

:wtf: and :cry:

[flvegan]

3. Where is this "work"? Just wanna know

so that I know to NEVER go there.

Hate spiders. Hate 'em.

If I actually ran across a tarantula, I don't know what I'd do first. Piss myself or have the heart attack.

[LeftyMom]

5. First you'd scream like a twelve year old girl at a boy band concert.

That would be followed by the simultaneous urination and myocardial infarction.

[Lex]

7. LOL!

at "First you'd scream like a twelve year old girl at a boy band concert." :rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. That might be a Wolf variation. What sort of lens did you use to get that close in?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

8. No special lens this time

just camera...
My camer is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ10. I thought I used macro mode but not this time, just up-in-its-face close (little zoom).

[stuntcat]

6. I like :)

I'd be scared of it yah but I think it's beautiful too :loveya:

[ThomCat]

9. On a nature show not so long ago

(sometime in the past year) I remember hearing that there is no known case of a person dying from a tarantula bite. They're not venomous enough to kill something as big as us.
:shrug:

[Zodiak]

11. I wouldn't be surprised.

If you have ever watched a tarantula hunt, the first thing you hear is a big crunch when it gets ahold of its prey. Then more crunching (they squeeze the "blood" out of their prey nd chew it up rather than suck it like with a straw).

Such an attack mechanism would not require poison, which is often expensive energetically for the spider to make.

Butno one ever dying....first I heard of it.

Of course, tarantulas in the New World are different from tarantulas in the old world. There, a tarantula is a wolf spider. In South America, I know there re some badass Theraphosids (primitive spider Family that tarantulas belong to) and other Mygalomorphs, and I think there are one or two that you supposedly have to watch out for.

I dunno...even though I know a lot about spiders, I do not know if this is true or not. If one includes South American mygalomorphs, I think that fact is wrong. But then again, it depends on whether it is the European or American definition of "tarantula".

[Zodiak]

10. Big wolf spider....and probably a male

That looks like a male pedipalp underneath the left front leg, but it is blurry. If it is a pedipalp, he's probably looking for a lady.

Pretty good shot, and a pretty spider.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

12. You asked....

[Zodiak]

13. yup...he's looking to become a daddy! n/t

[DarkTirade]

14. Awww... fuzzies! :)