Antrodiaetus pacificus

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This is what I believe these to be, I had to remove a very large stump today and found atleast 8 of these guys along with two giant egg sacs loaded with little ones

There awesome spiders and I plan to keep a couple just because there so interesting!

 

[jreidsma]

Very cool!

Trapdoor spiders? I have never had any of them.

Did you keep any of the babies?

 

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Very cool!

Trapdoor spiders? I have never had any of them.

Did you keep any of the babies?

Ya I have a large female and her clutch of little ones

I take it you found my thread on AB as well haha I posted more pics on that one...

 

[jreidsma]

Just checked out your pictures on AB

Great find!

 

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Ya there really cool they play dead when you find them but are very defensive at the same time.

 

[jreidsma]

Lol, sounds like a sight to see

 

[hardshell]

there are in my back yard all the time. hate those things

one almost bit me.

 

[jreidsma]

there are in my back yard all the time. hate those things

one almost bit me.

I wish trap door spiders were in my yard...

 

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I wish trap door spiders were in my yard...

They probably are you just haven't seen them yet....

 

[hardshell]

i saw one today again and it had a brown stripe on its belly

 

[Peter Clausen]

It's amazing how common they are in the Pacific NW. A local paper ran an article recently about these and one of their sources of information was quoted as suggesting it might be a Sydney Funnel Web (one of the most venomous spiders in the world that people are yearly bit by). It generated a lot of discussion. I see males very regularly, but you have to dig to find females. The females are capable of producing eggs at a fraction of the size of the specimen you shared a photo of. One of the PNW's best pet bugs, IMO!

 

[hardshell]

they try to bite me. its nasty

 

[hardshell]

is this spider dangerous?

 

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They are very defensive !! Oh and Peter I have a whole clutch of young as well..

There's a couple in this pic the rest have settled in well

 

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They are living with mom in the bottom of her burrow as she is still protecting them a few have ventured out and made small burrows down the sides of the vile very neat to observe and luckily I have a bunch of pinheads just hatched out so feeding them hasn't been a problem