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Back From The Desert
I wasn't able to post for the past few days since I was out in the Anza Borrego desert (just outside of San Diego), where I spent a long weekend with my wife and parents at the Borrego Valley Inn. I got to see some incredible desert fauna while I was there, including coyotes, jack rabbits, tarantulas, red-tailed hawks, and roadrunners. Thankfully I didn't encounter any rattlesnakes. In the picture to the right I believe that I was looking at a Jumpin' Yuccy. Update: Here's a picture of the tarantula that I saw. It was just wandering down the road. I'm assuming it was a tarantula, though given my limited knowledge of spiders, I could be wrong.
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Categories: Miscellaneous Posted by Alex on Mon Oct 17, 2005 |
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So uh..is the Jumpin' Yuccy real or not?
Posted by Dan on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 01:56 AM
That's a North American Funnel Web, you are lucky to be alive.
Posted by Moi on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 07:10 AM
I am curious about the jump'n yuccy as well...
Posted by X in McKinney, TX on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 08:04 AM
That's a tarantula for sure. By the way, it's not lucky that you didn't see any rattlers--they're hardly aggressive, and they can be really pretty. And sidewinders move in a way that doesn't even look real.
Anyways, nice to see that we like the same desert.
Posted by Citizen Premier in spite of public outcry on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 09:07 AM
Anyways, nice to see that we like the same desert.
Yep, that's a tarantula.
As CP says, rattlesnakes aren't really all that dangerous. People who get bitten usually stepped on them or otherwise got right in their faces somehow. Even if you are bitten, the bite is seldom fatal (although it IS painful).
" ... including coyotes, jack rabbits, tarantulas, red-tailed hawks, and roadrunners ..."
What about jackalopes?
Posted by Big Gary in Dallas in Dallas, Texas on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 10:30 AM
As CP says, rattlesnakes aren't really all that dangerous. People who get bitten usually stepped on them or otherwise got right in their faces somehow. Even if you are bitten, the bite is seldom fatal (although it IS painful).
" ... including coyotes, jack rabbits, tarantulas, red-tailed hawks, and roadrunners ..."
What about jackalopes?
What about jackalopes?
That was my first thought, too!
Posted by Smerk in to mischief on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 07:41 PM
That was my first thought, too!
That is a beautiful tarantula. I want to say maybe a cinnamon but the color isn't right, more than likely it is a Desert Tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/enlarged.asp?imageID=18635.
This picture is of a captive one so it will look a bit different than the one who has been roughing it in the wild.
Posted by Myst on Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 09:05 PM
This picture is of a captive one so it will look a bit different than the one who has been roughing it in the wild.
Jackalopes sometimes are seen in southern california. But not often. They're more common in the midwest and Rockies. Which is why I wasn't surprised that I didn't encounter one.
Posted by Alex in San Diego on Wed Oct 19, 2005 at 10:19 AM
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