Spiders and snakes (don't come if your paranoid of them, because there are pics) Come over Redhen!

[Orpingtons4U]

Holy Mother of GOD I should never have ventured here.....

i know

 

[madamwlf]

A few girls I have owned. First one is a Mexican Red Rump. The last one is a Mysore Ornamental Tarantula. At one time I had close to 70 tarantulas of various sizes. I still have about 10 babies right now.

 

[Symphony]

That last one is GORGEOUS!

 

[Orpingtons4U]

That last one is GORGEOUS!

what are you talking about LOL i need a truck to run over them

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

Im not a spider person, but i LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE SNAKES!!

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

LoL, funny spider story-

So my friend was in Canda Ontario, and was playing cards with her friend. He kept scratching his but, and then he asked my friend
"Can you look at my butt? I think theres something wrong" Well, that was funny. Turns out he was bit by a brown recluse

 

[GardenerGal]

madamwlf,
Wow, they are gorgeous! The markings on the Mysore Ornamental are stunning.

Orpingtons4U... LOL!

In a "previous life," I worked in media production and had a work assignment to shoot a video in Belize, Central America. I brought a couple of camera/tech guys along to do the shoot, and we were staying at a rustic resort-camp in the jungle. One afternoon a couple of the local Mayan workers took my camera guys on a little "field trip." They took them down near a lagoon where there was a big PVC drainage-runoff pipe that ran rainwater away from the camp lodge and into the lagoon. One of the Mayan men stuck his arm deep into the pipe and when he pulled it out, it was (according to my camera-technes) "covered with huge, hairy black tarantulas!!!!!!!"

The guides tried to get my guys to stick their arms in, too, but they didn't want to try it. lol.
Meanwhile, at dusk, I was walking across the campgrounds and it looked like the ground had come alive and was moving. When I turned on the flashlight, I saw that it was HUNDREDS of HUMUNGUS toads, all hopping around hunting and eating the GAZILLIONS of jungle bugs that were crawling, hopping and flying around. They were marine toads (Bufo marinus). The females were the size of of a salad plate! It was amazing.

The next day, one of the guys found a big rhinocerus beetle and we took turns letting it climb up our arms.

What a great trip that was.

 

[bluesub]

Brown recluse spiders are not native to Canada - they live in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Maybe it was a Hobo spider?

 

[redhen]

Brown recluse spiders are not native to Canada - they live in the southeastern and midwestern United States.  Maybe it was a Hobo spider?

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[CochinBrahmaLover]

Brown recluse spiders are not native to Canada - they live in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Maybe it was a Hobo spider?

It was recluse, spiders can catch rides ya know