| Weird snow spider | [ Sizes: Orig | Large | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
Anyone know what this is? it was up above 5000 ft and just hanging out in a huge snowfield, nothing Ive ever seen before.
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[ Post a Comment ]| theronmoon | Crazy! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Trantula of some kind, can't believe their on snow. | | Posted Jun 22, 2007 7:07 pm |
| Nikman | Are there any tarantulas ... | | 
Voted 10/10 | ... in lower grounds in that area?
If there are tarantulas in lower areas it can happen that a bird catches one of them but gets bit a few minutes after giving the tarantula a ride.
Death comes within minutes to the bird and the tarantula finds itself in a very uncommon area.
How big is that one in reality? | | Posted Jun 22, 2007 7:45 pm |
 | | TQW | Re: Are there any tarantulas ... | | 
Hasn't voted | No tarantulas here, this guy was a little bigger than a quarter (legspan). But thats interesting, hadn't considered a bird carrying it. | | Posted Jun 22, 2007 8:15 pm |
| nartreb | lycosid | | 
Hasn't voted | Some kind of wolf spider - hunts on foot, not from a web. Note the two large forward-facing eyes, and the very large fangs.
Might also have been carried on the wind - they can "balloon" on a length of silk, though it's usually the young that do this. But 5000' really isn't very high for a spider, it probably lives in the rocks nearby and just wandered in the wrong direction. | | Posted Jun 22, 2007 11:00 pm |
| | TQW | Re: lycosid | |
Hasn't voted | very interesting.....thanks for the info. | | Posted Jun 23, 2007 1:21 pm |
| Ejnar Fjerdingstad | In the Alps | | 
Voted 10/10 | it is not that uncommon to see rather large black spiders on the upper part of glaciers, where they live on small insects that again live on algae living in the snow. | | Posted Jun 23, 2007 8:53 am |
| | TQW | Re: In the Alps | |
Hasn't voted | ahh.....OK, I guess I just need to look more carefully, thanks! | | Posted Jun 23, 2007 1:22 pm |
| tarol | Cool photo! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Thanks for sharing it! | | Posted Jun 25, 2007 9:23 am |
| | TQW | Re: Cool photo! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks! | | Posted Jun 26, 2007 1:02 am |
| BobSmith | Nice shot. | | 
Voted 10/10 | I always enjoy seeing what most other climbers ignore or miss.
| | Posted Jun 25, 2007 10:32 pm |
| | TQW | Re: Nice shot. | |
Hasn't voted | I do too, while I do it sometimes, I try not to take that "one picture" that everyone takes of the same things. | | Posted Jun 26, 2007 1:02 am |
| | TQW | Re: um.... | |
Hasn't voted | hahaha....sorry? Thanks though! | | Posted Aug 12, 2007 10:56 pm |
| TacoDelRio | Cool stuff | | 
Hasn't voted | As said before, probably a type of Wolf Spider. I've got a knack fo catching tarantulas on and after climbs, though no on snow. | | Posted Aug 13, 2007 12:36 am |
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