California (tarantula) Dreaming lofi

California has many species of tarantulas. Many, possibly most, are not even described by science yet. I am not sure what this species is, beyond pretty.

In this video my buddy Steven and I use a tarantula recovery technique commonly known as flooding. The advantage to this method over digging is that it is much less invasive than digging, basically leaving the burrow almost immediately available for another animal to live in. Flooding does not always work. If the soil is too porous or the shape of the burrow is wrong you can pour gallons of water down the hole and never have the spider compelled to leave. Another problem with flooding in dry, hot areas is that you have to carry in quite a bit of water... which is heavy and limits the range you can hike to find bugs. This area happens to be several hundred feet (~100-150 meters) from a little stream which allowed us a basically unlimitted water supply.

[uploaded from a ~50MB WMV file]

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• California
• tarantula
• aphonopelma
• species
• big
• giant
• hairy
• spider
• flooding
• catching
• bug
• hunting

[Gladmar]

yes! hobby collecting tarantula nice!

[cacoseraph]

@Gladmar this one got donated to science. i do have a couple i collected from around my neighborhood that i am keeping as pets, though

[RELSSLER]

GAY BASTARD LET HIM GO

[cacoseraph]

@RELSSLER

that particular one went to a scientist studying native tarantulas. thanks for playing and for the view :)

[WESTSIDE19711996]

nice, your well educated about T's, fair play dude

[alfredostra]

Interesting, is that an Cal. ebony