Bothering wild desert tarantulas (Aphonopelma iodius) and searching for other arthropods as well. Part II: • Antagonizing Tarantula... 2nd channel: @generalapathy2 Instagram: me_and_the_alie...
Interesting stuff. I love the desert. I am arachnophobic but I understand their place in nature. Being a reptile man I love your chance encounters with herps now and then.
Coincidentally, a Gopher Snake was going to be in this video originally. I had found one on the single-lane road going up the mountain, but a couple cars were right behind me, so I couldn’t get any recordings unfortunately. Thank you for watching, Wayne.
@@GeneralApathy That can be frustrating. A number of times I have slowed to stop and remove a snake from the road, only to have someone else come along from the other direction to run right over it and kill it. In my area we get a lot of pacific gopher snakes and king snakes. Unfortunately on the hot nights these animals have the suicidal habit of laying on paved roads to soak up the heat. We have wolf spiders here in Douglas County, Oregon, but they are nowhere near the size of the monsters I have seen elsewhere, such as along the Mexican border in New Mexico. Those critters were nearly the size of tarantulas.
A week ago I was on vacation in the Dominican Republic and found many adult phormictopus tarantulas and one scolopendra which was 30 cm long! really great vid! Good job!
Scolopendra alternans! I found many of these while I was in Puerto Rico. The Dominican Republic has the largest ones if I am not mistaken (even though the locale references the island, Hispaniola, as a whole). Very cool.
@@GeneralApathy I think u’re right, she was in red-yelow colour combination with black strips, unfortunatly she was dead (she drowned). But i took another one with me, for now she’s small (5 cm) but i hope one day she will have this 30 cm :)
