Tarantula threat pose!!!

[orionmystery]

Tarantual in threat pose. Shot with my point and shoot/compact camera in macro mode.

 

[terri]

Holy crap!! ale: I hope that thing was behind glass. I would never have the presence of mind to photograph it; I'd be keeping far, far away....but that's just me and my well-documented fear of spiders.

 

[pgriz]

So, where you following it around, or was it following you?

 

[Ballistics]

My reaction would be "Well, this thing looks angry. Better move to another continent, like Antarctica."

 

[Josh66]

I hope that thing was behind glass.

Given the OP's avatar and location, I'm guessing this was probably in the wild, lol.

 

[pgriz]

I've known someone who had one for a pet. It's behaviour was such that it could be said to have a personality. It was calm with some people, and standoffish with others. But it stayed under the sun-lamp a lot. I've been with little dogs that were more bothersome.

 

[lonerunner]

Holy crap!! ale: I hope that thing was behind glass. I would never have the presence of mind to photograph it; I'd be keeping far, far away....but that's just me and my well-documented fear of spiders.

I second that. For everything like snakes, lizards, spiders, bugs, i would run away.

 

[KrisztinaK]

I would get away from that thing as fast as I could too. Very scary indeed ! There is NO WAY I would actually stop and photograph it, especially at that distance.

 

[CoBilly]

What did you do to make it not like you? And, any idea what kind it is?

 

[orionmystery]

Thanks for the comments, and humor

Shot this in the wild . Not sure but I think it's a Coremiocnemis hoggi? Since I "persuaded" it to come out of its hole, I tried to make it go back in (using a stick), that's when it gave me this threat pose.

Its venom won't kill human so there's nothing to be afraid of , read more about it on wiki - Tarantula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I hope to have the courage to put one on my hand some day!

 

[Tiller]

I hope to have the courage to put one on my hand some day!

You sir, are a strange....strange fellow.

But I look forward to your shots nonetheless

 

[gregtallica]

I can't believe you had time to photograph it before you killed it with a heavy, flaming rock!



You did kill it, right?

 

[Ballistics]

You did kill it, right?

 

[EllaElla]

I like being at home....the only thing we have to worry about here are garder snakes, bees, and maybe an occasional wolf spider....