Y-Y-Y-YIKES !!!

[pbkid]

oh cece- i love your beardie!!!

well i just love beardies all together... but he looks awesome!

[tjh]

I call her stingy. I decided to leave her on the trail.

[Triathlete]

Did he bite you ? is that how he got the name

Nope, Dub keeps his inards liquified in other ways!

1/2 giant abdomen creepy shiny pincher thing

That would probably be a centipede...


In the past few weeks on my trail runs I have seen a few rather large taranchulas

along with a lot of desert tourtoises...I generally just pick them up and move them off the trail so they don't meet there maker under the tires of a mtn bike.
They are much nicer than the usual that I run into on the trail...

[VX KAT]

holy crapola, I had to remove 2 tarantulas when Dave was gone from INSIDE the garage, some very large spider inside the living room, kind of hairy 8 legs....then the weird bug I described above had only 6 or maybe 8 legs. Dave chucked it way over the fence ....I should have taken a pic...cuz it's like nuttin' I've ever seen! I'm keepin' my windows up so these critters done get inside the cabin of the VX (probably a futile effort....) I can just see me gettin' in and taking off then finding a tarantula climbing around inside...OMG, please don't let that happen! I just don't like bugs & spiders.....call me a wuss but I just can't deal with them! Mice, rats, birds, no problem. Unidentifiable 6-8 legged critters.....PROBLEM!

[Triathlete]

You guys got them small green rattlers up there also...VERY venomous!
Taranchulas are pretty predictable. They tell you when not to mess with them...they rear back and show their fangs. If you move slow around them they will walk right up your hand and tickle you with all that hair!