Colorado Tarantulas looking for love

[Mr. P]

Seems to be an annual thing there:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-t...-to-crawl-through-colorado-august-2019-08-08/

 

[Arachnoclown]

Lmao....they use a Alphonopelma seemanni photo. Idiots

 

[Jess S]

Lmao....they use a Alphonopelma seemanni photo. Idiots

Lmao.
No proper journalist wrote that pile of nonsensical rubbish. Also calls them INSECTS, and says, "Their hairs can irritate human eyes, nose and mouth, sometimes requiring medical attention is required" . That's a hell of a lot of requires! Who writes like that??!!!

 

[Rs50matt]

What makes me laugh the most is if you put your face close enough while outside to get hairs in your eyes you deserve to go blind. That's natural selection at work

 

[MassExodus]

What makes me laugh the most is if you put your face close enough while outside to get hairs in your eyes you deserve to go blind. That's natural selection at work

Hey. Mr ****ing expert. Sometimes we get complacent and overconfident. That's why they're called accidents. Act like you never stick your face in a cracked lid before opening it all the way..pfft..wait till you get bitten or swallow a puffball of urcticating hairs, wiseass. Won't be so superior than.

 

[Rs50matt]

Hey. Mr ****ing expert. Sometimes we get complacent and overconfident. That's why they're called accidents. Act like you never stick your face in a cracked lid before opening it all the way..pfft..wait till you get bitten or swallow a puffball of urcticating hairs, wiseass. Won't be so superior than.

My apologies, wasn't aware you were out maintaining tarantulas in the wild.

Maybe you should read the article and what I said again before getting angry at nothing.

 

[m0lsx]

Personally I thought it was nicely done for a journalist wanting to sell a story about Tarantulas to the public.
No horror stories of venom, just a mention of a nasty bite & hairs which can need medical attention if they get into your eyes etc.
I read the story as..This is interesting, you can go & look. But don't touch.

 

[Arachnoclown]

Wanna know the truth about these migrating spiders from someone who has actually witnessed it multiple times???
These males are harmless and dont bite at all...I have picked up dozens of them. Not one has ever flicked hairs or attempted to bite me. They only have one thing on their minds and it wasn't me.
As for being haired in the face...it happens. I dumped some trash in a garbage sack once that had substrate in the bottom of it. The force dropping it caused the air to force it's way out of the trash can into my face.

 

[Rs50matt]

Wanna know the truth about these migrating spiders from someone who has actually witnessed it multiple times???
These males are harmless and dont bite at all...I have picked up dozens of them. Not one has ever flicked hairs or attempted to bite me. They only have one thing on their minds and it wasn't me.
As for being haired in the face...it happens. I dumped some trash in a garbage sack once that had substrate in the bottom of it. The force dropping it caused the air to force it's way out of the trash can into my face.

I understand that getting haired happens but I did say outside from a wild tarantula. If you put your face next to a wild tarantula and piss it off enough to hair then it's no accident.

 

[m0lsx]

I understand that getting haired happens but I did say outside from a wild tarantula. If you put your face next to a wild tarantula and piss it off enough to hair then it's no accident.

For me that is how the story read. Come & see them, they are interesting. But if you are stupid & pick them up without understanding them, they can do more than just bite you.

 

[Arachnoclown]

Honestly I didnt read the article...as soon as I saw a tarantula from Costa rica I was done with it.

 

[Casey K.]

Lmao....they use a Alphonopelma seemanni photo. Idiots

That's the FIRST thing I noticed!! Ha ha ha!!!

 

[Casey K.]

What makes me laugh the most is if you put your face close enough while outside to get hairs in your eyes you deserve to go blind. That's natural selection at work

Exactly!!! Lmao.

 

[Casey K.]

Wanna know the truth about these migrating spiders from someone who has actually witnessed it multiple times???
These males are harmless and dont bite at all...I have picked up dozens of them. Not one has ever flicked hairs or attempted to bite me. They only have one thing on their minds and it wasn't me.
As for being haired in the face...it happens. I dumped some trash in a garbage sack once that had substrate in the bottom of it. The force dropping it caused the air to force it's way out of the trash can into my face.

Same as media....fearmongering BS. I'm sick of it. All they do is throw the hobby under the bus. People fear the unknown....I say "educate yourself".

 

[Casey K.]

Honestly I didnt read the article...as soon as I saw a tarantula from Costa rica I was done with it.

EXXXXAAAAACCCCTTTLLLYYY!!!!

 

[Ed Zeppelin]

My apologies, wasn't aware you were out maintaining tarantulas in the wild.

Maybe you should read the article and what I said again before getting angry at nothing.

Agreed. I was also a little surprised by that reaction.

Sent from my Commodore 64 running Windoze 95

 

[Whitelightning777]

Except that reporter must be color blind, those looked awful purple to me not brown.

Speaking of purple male tarantulas looking for love...

Knowledgeable people looking for wild caught tarantulas will ignore wandering males and look for females in burrows, not that I condone wild caught ones that are already in the hobby, just saying.