This is what the son brought in with him tonight!He saw it crossing the road in his neighborhood so he stopped and picked it up in a 2 gallon plastic jar.
It sat on my cabinet. It's a Missouri tarantula. The picture doesn't really show you the size, but I wasn't going to let it out to really capture the measurements.
I have downloaded a video from the Missouri Conservation site. They will tell you all about it.
64 degrees 9:30 PM
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11 comments:
Eeek! Oh, I'm still shuddering after that one. Spiders... oh the horrors! If I were an ornery person (like PW), I would post a big picture of a frog in retaliation for that big hairy scary creature. Haha! But, thank goodness, I'm not that ornery... :)
-Tammy
Yuck! My daughter-in-law is a first grade teacher and they have a tarantula as a class pet. In the summer she brings the taraantula home with her! blessings, marlene
Wow, I can get an idea of size from the penny and I'd send it along too!!
~Andrea~
Some people just don't appreciate nature. ;)
-JT
Big spider! Big Scary! I appreciate their usefulness in the world but I would be completely freaked if this thing were in my house. I've never actually seen a MO Tarantula and have lived in MO for all my life. Thanks for the nature lesson today.
Jackie
Yikes-acutally Double Yikes!!
Great, thank Patti, now I'm going to have nightmares! I am serious when I say that if one of my son's had brought that home I would have died....right there....dropped dead.
:) Did you miss me?? I'm blogging again because of you!
Yuck. Can't believe that boys still act like boys even after they are "grown". Missin you!
what a kind hearted son! and i would have sent it home with him also! although it would have been a great halloween decoration!
Okay, you need to post another entry so we can move the spider down the page.....Ewwwwwwwwwwww...it makes me shiver EVERY time! ;)
Okay, here is what we should do...we should make our date a lunch date at Coffee Zone...they have GREAT food!!! AND Chai Latte! :)
UGH! He's one ugly arachnid! (is that what spiders are called?)
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