Posted on 10/18/2016 8:13:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hikers at the popular Stanford Dish are spending more keeping their eyes down due to an influx of spiders in the area.
The tarantula mating season is in full swing, with male arachnids on the prowl searching for mates. Wildlife experts said the tarantulas are harmless to humans, but warn the spiders do have fangs and carry poison.
California's historic drought may have contributed to a higher number of the giant spiders this year.
The tarantula mating season will end by the end of October.
The big dish near 280? I’d stay away.
I used to do a lot of camping out in the California desert. Late October up to say the first week of November we would see lots of tarantulas. They were all over the place. I figured it was the mating season.
Lovebugs seems so much less annoying now.
“Wildlife experts said the tarantulas are harmless to humans, but warn the spiders do have fangs and carry poison. “
They are harmless but have fangs and carry poison.
What am I missing here?
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That’s my question too. I’ve never understood why some people handle them.
Tarantulas aren’t really harmful. I pick them up when they come a knockin’ here at the ranch, and carry them out to the fields around the place, and drop them off so they can find a mate without scaring the you know what out of the women. They are ugly, but they are not killers. So far this year we haven’t had any visit us, but had a couple of them last year.
Same with most of the snakes around here. The ladies go bananas, so have to pick them up, and deposit them outside the immediate area, and hope they stay out there. We are lucky we don’t have any poisonous snakes here. Mostly King snakes, Red Racers, and the like.
One of my grand daughters thinks tarantulas are “the cutest fuzzy little creatures”. Believe it or not. LOL
Do you flip it over and rub its tummy until it goes to sleep, like a gator?
I still don’t understand why you would handle a poisonous creature with fangs.
I handled horned lizards, but they were nothing.
What utter BS, if it has fangs and poison, it is not "harmless".
Stomp, stomp, stomp, repeat as necessary.
“but had a couple of them last year.”
If I saw one near me you’d hear the screams across the country——even if they aren’t posonous.
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I have no problems tucking a chicken’s head under its wing until it goes to sleep, and they have talons.
But they ain’t pisenus.
When is she coming back to Fox News?
Sounds like the plot of one of those B horror movies.
They’re toting little bottles of cyanide capsules.
If they offer you one, do not accept it.
/it’s venomous, not poisonous....geesh
They need venom to hunt and stun their prey.
It’s not a big deal.
this message just decoded from SETI:
“send money right now to NASA, NOAA, and the SETI project and we’ll call off the spiders. that is all.”
I’d have an epi-pen handy—buts that’s just me.
Look out, Dr. Quest! A harmless tarantula was placed on your bed by an evil enemy!
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