Texas Tarantulas

Michigan Mike · #1 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 07:38 PM

I just found out there are TARANTULAS in TEXAS ... right here in the goold ol' USA! I never knew this. I always thought they were an ocean or two away. I don't mind sharing with scorpions and rattlesnakes ... that's one thing ... but big, hairy spiders!?! Doesn't seem right.

YouTube - texas brown tarantula spider mike aroyo canyon

PS ... No ... that's not me in the video.

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Kevlarr · #2 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 08:27 PM

Back in the mid 70's mom and dad bought a motorhome, dad took three monts off of work and we toured around out west staying mostly in state or national parks. I remember one time in particular we went to a wildlife film they were having at the campground somewhere in Arizona which ended up being about the little critters like scorpions and tarantulas. I was 6 at the time and after the movie dad had to carry me back to the motorhome because there was NO WAY that I was walking back in the dark barefoot.

mechanickid · #3 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 08:39 PM

i was never in texas long enough to see wild life when i was on tour with some bands, but when we slept on some huge red rock at a rest stop in new mexico we saw some snakes and spiders, and in sedona arazona we killed five rattlers that we're under the bus, and i killed a tarantula. it was exciting. i also almost rode a dirt bike off a cliff earlier that day. good times....

**2door** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 09:07 PM

Mike,
Come to Colorado some time. I'll show you tarantulas...and like you, before I moved here in 79 I thought they only were where Tarzan lived. Yuk...I hate spiders...

Tom

Michigan Mike · #5 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 2door

Mike,
Come to Colorado some time. I'll show you tarantulas...and like you, before I moved here in 79 I thought they only were where Tarzan lived. Yuk...I hate spiders...

Tom

Tom,
Tarantulas in Colorado?! Oh no, say it ain't so ... this just gets worser and worser!

Kevlarr,
I understand how you felt when you were 6 ... and I'm over 60!
Mike

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george_n_texas · #6 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 09:42 PM

I had a neighbor in Roswell NM let one of them critters walk up his arm...I used to catch horny taods when I was little too they are on an endangered list now. I wouldn't kill a rattler or a tarantula they both pretty much eat mice.

Michigan Mike · #7 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by george_n_texas

I had a neighbor in Roswell NM let one of them critters walk up his arm...I used to catch horny taods when I was little too they are on an endangered list now. I wouldn't kill a rattler or a tarantula they both pretty much eat mice.

I wouldn't mind if mice ate tarantulas!

(Just kidding George ... I know what you mean.)

bandito · #8 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 09:56 PM

Texas's most unusual critters walk on 2 legs. I didnt know CO had tarantulas, knew tx did. I was a victim of a tx tarantula once and have never regained my original color back.

**2door** · #9 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bandito

Texas's most unusual critters walk on 2 legs. I didnt know CO had tarantulas, knew tx did. I was a victim of a tx tarantula once and have never regained my original color back.

Bandito,
Ever camped out in Pueblo? If you do, you'll see tarantulas. I've never seen one around Denver but they were all over the beach at Pueblo Reservoir. You had to sleep off the ground or they'd crawl into your sleeping bags.....uuuuuuuuh. I hate spiders! I slept in my car.
Tom

**paul** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 11:10 PM

i will stay here with the iguanas. them friggen spiders i do not like at all