What a beautiful Tarantula. It is especially furry!

Thanks for the photos.

Dang! I didn't know they could be in the wild here in Texas.

Omar

Yeah, this was an especially pretty one--so chocolaty colored & nicely furred.

We see them a couple of times a year, without looking. They like the holes formed by rock piles around here (nw of SA). I've read that it's usually females you find in burrows like that.

Such neat critters.

So, are you going to adopt her? :p I just read that they can last decades...

Omar

For a Texas Brown, it really isn't that brown. But a beautiful specimen.

I would venture to guess that your beauty is indeed a female. And yes, females have lived 20+ years in captivity. Thanks for the heads up, Roselee! :-)

Cool photo. I've come across a few of these. My first introduction to them was shortly after buying my house and finding a smaller one on a wall in my dining room. That's how I found out that Texas had tarantulas. Here's one I found hiding in the space between two pavers one summer:

R they dangerous?

No. They have venom, like all spiders, but they're only deadly to the prey that they hunt. Do you have a more specific question?

They can bite, and the bite hurts. But generally they're pretty docile. The venom from one on this continent causes some discomfort, but that's about it, assuming you don't have some allergic reaction. They don't necessarily even inject venom when they bite, either. The bristles are very sharp, and can make life miserable, especially if you get them in your eye.

Thanks both. Just curious.! Looks scary to me.

Ooo, that's a pretty one. Looks like she just got bathed & blown-dried.

Yeah, these things can give you a heart attack, they are very scary looking when they leap out at you or you see one CLIMBING ON YOUR WALL!!!

But, compared to real nasties like the little recluses & black widows, they're very nice spiders & you want to resist the urge to grab a flamethrower or napalm when you see them :-D

I once found one of these. IN MY ROOM AT NIGHT. Good gosh, nearly had a heart attack, still gives me the chills. Yet they're another rather innocuous critter *shudder*, according to the info I looked up. Still....

Vingegaroon

Yes, they're relatively docile. What is amazing to me is that they're slow-growing longer lived spiders. Female tarantulas (probably not this species) have been documented to live more than 20 years in captivity.

OMG, I saw the movie Tarantula when I was a kid. It's beautiful though, and furry (scary).

I am always jealous of your spiders, except the black widows lol. We don`t have any on the island. I had a Texas brown for years, it was saved from being crushed. She would come out of her hole and watch me at night-her tank was by the computer.