Holy shit !!! :helpme


I hate spiders. *leaves thread never to return*

nice pics !!!

On top of the fact that they are scary.some of them jump :Oh crap

i hate spiders

I swear I can feel something crawling on me after looking at those pics.

here's a banana spider in Mississippi last summer, it was huge, several inches.

http://www.cherrylula.com/banana-spider.jpg

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

If you don't like spiders you might not want to click that link but it's fun to play with

Grab it by the leg and pull it around...that's the weirdest one...

-- Bill

this is a cool spider

<--- hates spiders.

they are awesome spiders, but take a whole lot of living space up. i know of a guy who i used to buy some stuff from who actually lets a couple nephila species spiders live in his house unenclosed. they just find a high corner and web in it apparently. pretty crazy shit if you ask me. some of them apparently have a pretty deadly bite. i wouldn't exactly want a big 5 inch spider with a venomous bite roaming my house. there are some really amazing looking orb weavers though...

http://hartmanprehistoricgarden.com/sp-phidippus2.jpg

Kinda cute.

I hate spiders.

I just killed a Brown Recluse that was crawling next to my hand on my desk.

Color Me Impressed! That thing is scary looking. What is the life span of a large centipede? I have been looking at getting some exotic Mantis recently but it doesn't seem to be a popular hobby.

The jumping ones are really out this time of year around here. I had 2 of them in my livingroom the other day. I hate to off them, since they dont bother humans.. but they creep me out walking above my head.

Black widow is beautiful bro!

mantids are relatively popular and easy to find for sale if you know where to look. i never kept any myself, but i always thought getting some orchid mantids would be sweet. they are really cool looking if you ask me. very pretty bugs.

http://www.spectacular-planet.com/images/orchid1.jpg

there are some other stickbugs and mantids that look really crazy too, that's just the one species that always stood out in my mind if i were to get some mantids some day. if you're actually interested hit up some reptile forums, or best arachnoboards.com and visit their buy&sell section. search for "oothecae" which are the little sacks of mantid eggs you can buy. mantids have a relatively short lifespan compared to a lot of invertebrates, so don't be surprised if they only live for a few months ontheir entire life cycle. if you build a good terrarium and allow them the proper conditions to breed you should be able to continue hatching out new generations. some species are easier than others to breed in captivity, driving the prices for certain exotic oothecae quite high. most common species will run you $15-25 per ooth, hatching a dozen or so mantids.

the centipede hobby is generally pretty new, with new species being introduced to hobby trade regularly, some species are absolutely stunning. i had a mau chau, which i've misplaced my pics of, but he was a huge red sucker.

i would love to have a pair of these, but they ran around $600 each last i checked...
http://www.kenthebugguy.com/images/BlueLeg2.jpg
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...nlate/pede.jpg

First one if google bot and the other is yahoo I think.

some crazy looking spiders in this thread!

That's pretty cool. Kinda like an Arachnaphobia Therapy tool.

:D

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:pimp

Thanks for the info. Orchid Mantis is a really exotic looking species, but as you pointed out short lifespan I have read 9months max. I am going to check out the site though.