*sigh* I miss the shop:( I need to come in soon!

i will say that Chilobrachys dysculos was all over the place before i got it to calm down for pics

Gawd Yes!, those the calmest pamphos but hairz! My goodness watch out!!!
I was one big itchy blister

some duplicate pics with the names of the spiders

Pamphobeteus petersi



Orphnaecus sp. Sa Mar

its been an interesting few weeks ill tell ya between wrangling for the filming of a public service announcement to signing contracts with discovery channel and spider stuff in between oi
at the shop we noticed there was a woodlouse killer living in Kens communal regalis tank the other day. dont ask us how it managed to get in there but it seems happy with the rollypollys in the tank n seems to care less bout the regalis


the aliens landed and demanded we give them flies
i think these were Texas unicorn mantids but i could be wrong i dont pay much attention to em


saw a 2 spotted assassin freshly molted


bred irminia


gave my Burmese Brown a skull to play with


i think she likes it cause she wont let me have it back



Princess Yarr my GBB set up


she had a hot date loaned to me


and it was neat to see them drumming back n forth almost right away


after 5 hrs though it was getting tiresome and i fell asleep, when i woke up hrs later the guy was waiting for me near the top to be removed

hopefully this year these will produce something




Grumpy wanted to eat the poor boy after only 2 matings sooooo ive got me fingers crossed


i just cant get enough of his beauty P. 'plattyomma'





this pairing went pretty much the same as the first one a couple days before hrs n hrs n hrs n hrs of flirting with one another till i fell asleep:rolleyes:

oh yeah and now urticans

someones being a little grouchy with me

Oh Mikey, you always have something good going on. Makes me very jealous! Awesome pictures, as always. Never a dull moment up there in NorCal, huh?

ockerti babies


Traci's Okefenokee fishing spider finally caught a fish! her name is Jeff



baby Deathstalker


Pamphobeteus nigricolor finally matured!


sadly she keeps trying to eat him


yes i still havent learned my lesson



i noticed some webbing going on just after we got back from the conference


platyomma male still has to be my favorite blooming birdeater


wish the nigricolor were this cooperative



Vietnamese giant with babies


one of the Hogna brought back from Az dropped a sac


Suntiger mama n lings


a few days later the Goliath had a big beautiful sac woohoo!

went camping at Pinnacles National Monument one night earlier this week and must say it was amazing place n i got to see one of the 188 California Condors known to be in the wild. nature photos (none of the condor) can be seen here http://miketroll-pinnacles.buzznet.com/user/photos/
but i wanted to share the pic of the undescribed species of Vaejovis we saw blacklighting

gemme a kiss beautiful

Always a pleasure to see what's happenin' down at the bug ranch! Questions:

-have any pix of the Dolomedes set-up?
-ditto on what seems to be Scolopendra multidens?

Good luck w/ the T. blondi(?) sac!

ill try taking pics of the fishing spider set up later this week for ya. the pede is in a large round like this

one of the irminia slings seemed eager to be separated


thank goodness these were content to just sit on the lid n wait for me to scoop em up one by one.


mama Hysterocrates coming out of her burrow


regalis paired up, the males in my older colony have matured


the Texas Blotched Heros we borrowed for a shoot


look i taught it to wave


for our next trick we will need an ambulance (jk)

ya know ive noticed people who dont know me think its about bravado when i handle things that people normally shouldnt but its really not, its about insight into behaviors n ok maybe a little thrill now n then but thats not what im going for doing what i do.

If people didn't get some sort of rush from experimenting with hazardous things this world would probably be a lot more dangerous to live in!

too true

the wasps in the oleanders along the driveway where i take my breaks when im at the shop


one of the Neoscona sp orbweaver that also live along the driveway


African Tiger centipede molting


it was amazing how he ended up here, usually the big guy wants a piece of me but when a hungry grrl is chasing him hes more then willing to fly through the air out of her container and land on my hand then refuse to get off.


its Susanne's turn to mate, she molted months after the others i have on sacs now but the guys are still making sperm webs so hopfully their sperms are still viable

T.ockerti baby, anyone wanna try raising a group of 5 cohabitating for me?


some of the 30 H.gigas per set ups i have



they seem to prefer to wait n ambush when they know fooder is moving about on the surface, very little effort is put into grabbing prey





it waits legs straight up for something to come by close enough to grab...


in the blink of an eye it strikes n drags its prey back down its burrow, this action shot is in middle of that blink


Traci's fishing spider set up

just another sweet G.pulchripes


A.urticans preparing to disperse


the next morning

finally T.burgundi success! came into the shop thursday to find this, sad seeing bad eggs but hey ive been trying to pull this off for years n was afraid to incubate it myself when we got the sac

24 healthy looking lings n 6 weird looking ones woo hoo!


my Hysterocrates babies are finally big enough to tackle the crickets i feed to mama, makes feeding time easier.
nope no cannibalization





went in to the shop late the other night n almost caught them in the act