Sparassidae Photos - Huntsman of All Species

[Arachnoporium]

Exactly - usually when the rare occurrence of an escapee (most often a Sparassidae - my vents are screened ) I get a bit frustrated when it gives chase - when I was packing that one up for you I intentionally did not catch it right away to watch those precision landings. I wish I would have taken some video. When I finally decided to catch it - there were one or two jumps before it crawled on the underside of the table and I cupped it.

This things jumping capabilities are unbelievable. It's not so much the distance which is amazing, it's with the precision that they "pounce" with...not a psycho mad leap...very precise landings.

I took your advise and played "catch the huntsman"...unintentionally of course.

 

[Helio]

My polybetes pythagoricus

 

[telow]

Here is a great photo of the Purple Sparassidae found in Malaysia.

This photo was given to me by Rick West and can be found on my site @:
http://thearachnoporium.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Purple-Sparassidae.jpg

Rick has many great photos for sale. I encourage all to to support his past, present and future work by purchasing his photos @ www.birdspiders.com

im not huge on huntsman but i do like them but this purple one does it for me
i want to get a couple of those very very nice looking

 

[Arachnoporium]

Hopefully I'll be able to post my own photos of some of the purple Sparassid species tomorrow. I have had the worst PC problems imaginable - after trying to repair it for over a week of downtime, I bit the bullet today and bought a new one. To my surprise, I received a shipment of some rare Sparassids and others and will be picking them up tomorrow morning after a drive to Baltimore.

Can't wait to see what has come in.

im not huge on huntsman but i do like them but this purple one does it for me
i want to get a couple of those very very nice looking

 

[Apophis]

just reviving this thread

 

[JakubV]

Hi,nice pics.I can´t wait til they grow.
... they grow bloody slowly

 

[Irks]

Sold to me as Holconia immanis, but possibly Holconia insignis? Should have at least 1 molt left (molted 3 days ago), but I hope it has 2+ molts left. 5" legspan currently, female.

 

[Arachnoporium]

awesome photo. looks like a Holconia sp.

 

[Grupofix]

Hi, really interesting photos everyone. I hope I will have the purple H.lunata one day.

my heteropoda boiei green huntsman (not really green yet)

and my sp.Guina

http://g-spiders.cz

 

[buthus]

I just dont understand why this thread has not been stickyfied yet. :?

 

[doom]

Huntsman from Phillipines.

 

[Stefan2209]

Hi there,

early x-mas gift....

Fresh moulted

Heteropoda lunula, cb, juvenile female (???)

Have a nice sunday everybody!

Greetings,

Stefan

 

[Pulk]

WOW, Stefan! That is awesome!

 

[PhilK]

Immanis I think. Found it while camping. Was a mature male and died, unfortunately. But not before sorting out a few crickets.

 

[froggyman]

sweet stefan love the purple sp.

 

[Grupofix]

Hi, Stefan your H.lunata is so cute. I hope you have more then one and you can breed them very soon.

 

[Irks]

Hi, Stefan your H.lunata is so cute. I hope you have more then one and you can breed them very soon.

Ditto!
Also, sticky this thread?

 

[Irks]

the male

male Holconia, most likely insignis

 

[xgrafcorex]

a few unknowns from florida.

boca raton (south east coast)

tampa (central west coast)
this one i found dead at my parents house

this one was outside of my parents house at a different time of year

 

[lhystrix]

a few unknowns from florida.

boca raton (south east coast)


tampa (central west coast)
this one i found dead at my parents house

Hi.
Genus Selenops (first pics) and Heteropoda venatoria.

The dead one is an adult male, and the other appears to be a juvenile.