Sunday, October 27, 2019

Neighbors in the Desert

Jim was out vacuuming the truck and cleaning the interior late this afternoon.  A lady came by with her dog and told him there was a really big spider behind him. There was!  He's a tarantula.  Apparently this time of year, the males go out searching for a female.  He went trucking down the road, so we shooed him into a box and took him across the street into the desert.  Hopefully he'll stay there.


If one were to flatten out his legs, he'd be about five inches across.  I read on the internet that they make good pets.

9 comments:

  1. Yes, I've read that, but not for me either.

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  2. As much as I love the desert, I'm very happy "vacationing" in California where I don't have to even THINK about those critters!!!

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  3. cool! I don't understand why so many people dislike creatures that are harmless to them.

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  4. Well, OK, but I wouldn't give it the run of the house.

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  5. Are they poisonous? I know I could google this, but I haven't as yet. My daughter and daughter-in-law-to-be slept with a huge one on their room on their recent trip to Tulum. They said they'd read tarantulas don't really like to bother humans.

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    1. They can bite which will hurt, but I don't think they're really venomous like scorpions or black widow spiders.

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  6. Big spider! But, they eat bugs (and other things) so, I'm good with that.

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  7. One year I was cleaning up around the little garden pool. I moved the sculpture I had sitting above it and an annoyed tarantula scurried out. I quickly put my sculpture back down and gave her an appropriate name-- Spider Woman. I watched on year a tarantula wasp trying to get on a tarantula and hit it with a spray of water. I don't want them in the house but love seeing them outside.

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