Bonus Trapdoor Spider hifi

I was bughunting in an area by my dad's house (in Rancho Cucamonga, Califorina, USA) that i have hunted and hiked in for years. Up until a couple weeks ago i have never found any scorpions or ~trapdoor spider (mygalomorphs), though i have found evidence of some kind of trapdoor spider and saw a mature male tarantula about 10 miles away. In this video i had flipped over a big rock and saw a medium scolopocryptops "giant" blind centipede scurry under the triangle shaped stone. When i went to flip the triangle i moved a different rock first... and found a large, mature female of some mygalomorph! Very Nice!

I will eventually be able to figure out what species this and post it here... for the possibly three ppl who might actually care

n.b. though the discovery method was a bit, er, abrupt the spider is fine and moved into a new semi-temporary housing :)

edit: this spider has pretty conclusively been identified as an Aptostichus species of wafer lid trapdoor
[uploaded from a 21MB WMV file]

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• trapdoor
• spider
• mygalomorph
• scolopocryptops
• bughunt
• bonus
• giggling
• goof
• Aptostichus
• wafer
• waferlid

[KATAFRAKT]

Cool "satanic" laugh, and cool spider too.

HAhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­ha !!!

And cool vids in general, dude.

[cacoseraph]

heh thanks

that was me overcome with joy heh

thanks for watching

[TheMetalWarrior]

I don't know whats scarier... the spider or your laugh, lol.

Awesome video, man! I just found one of these guys while I was pulling weeds in my grandpas backyard; it was in a bulb of dirt when I pulled a clot out of the ground. I nearly shat my pants when I saw it.

[KATAFRAKT]

You're very welcome.

Thanks for sharing your experience.