Erin spotted this
desert tarantula (technically an Arizona Blond Tarantula) huddled on the threshold of our kitchen door this morning. It's been raining and cold here in Tucson for a few days, so his burrow must be pretty inhospitable, possibly flooded. This fellow is probably male or juvenile because it's not a very big tarantula (though still damn big for a spider) and the females are larger than the males.
We don't mind sharing a little heat. Keep warm, buddy.
Update: I didn't originally post the following pictures of the tarantula because it was sitting near a pile of packrat turds, which is pretty gross, but upon looking at them again, I noticed that one of those turds is actually not a turd at all, but a regular sized spider. The contrast between the two spiders justifies posting the shots.
2 comments:
Did you shoo it out the door after you took the pictures? I would have.
Ha ha. No, I let it alone. It's been wandering around the carport. We have a lot of tarantulas around out house.
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