New Mexico Spider

by Ted Gorczyca

Uploaded 26 Jun 2009 — 17 favorites

New Mexico Spider

June and July is the mating season. Males are all black and the females have brown on their body.

31 responses

  • Susan Littlefield

    Susan Littlefield gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    Ewwww!!! Great capture, but ewwwww!!!!

  • Regenia Brabham

    Regenia Brabham   gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    Very creepy!!! Very cool!!

  • JOE FAILK

    JOE FAILK   gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    Fantastic shot!

  • Klaus Girk

    Klaus Girk gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    Ugly looking spider, but a nice photo.

  • Lynn H

    Lynn H gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    YIKES!!!

  • Liz Bennefeld

    Liz Bennefeld   gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    Wow! Marvelous photo! (I do confess to liking spiders...out of doors.)

  • Judy Wanamaker

    Judy Wanamaker gave props (26 Jun 2009):

    A great capture of this terrifying creature.

  • Rob Roy

    Rob Roy gave props (27 Jun 2009):

    One of Mother Nature's most unique "engineering" feats marvelously captured!

  • Loree McComb

    Loree McComb   gave props (27 Jun 2009):

    what the? where, when - I'll be on the lookout not to come into contact with his kind....eek

  • Larry Hirt

    Larry Hirt gave props (27 Jun 2009):

    nice shot!

  • Matt. Fletcher

    Matt. Fletcher gave props (27 Jun 2009):

    Good Size!

  • Allen Freeman

    Allen Freeman   gave props (29 Jun 2009):

    I'm staying out of Mexico now. Nice shot. You are brave.

  • May Vokaty

    May Vokaty gave props (30 Jun 2009):

    great capture!

  • Mauricio Herrera

    Mauricio Herrera   gave props (4 Jul 2009):

    Very cool but scary.

  • bonnie pelton

    bonnie pelton   gave props (4 Jul 2009):

    nice shot !

  • Maria Cox

    Maria Cox gave props (6 Jul 2009):

    Awesome capture!! Great color and detail!!!

  • Kathryn Darbin

    Kathryn Darbin said (6 Jul 2009):

    That's awesome!
    I used to have a picture like this...bit it was of a smaller spider on my carpet haha
    I no longer have that picture :(
    but this picture is sweet
    and it's a great shot

  • Jüri Vissak

    Jüri Vissak gave props (7 Jul 2009):

    Beautiful macro! Well done.

  • Karen England

    Karen England gave props (8 Jul 2009):

    Spiders creep me out, but you did good.

  • Patty Gross

    Patty Gross   gave props (8 Jul 2009):

    Brings new meaning to the word arachnaphobia! A brilliant capture, Ted!! They are very scary looking, but I don't think they are deadly to humans (unless you have a heart attack if one crawls up on you. :) Very interesting!!

  • Chessaddict *

    Chessaddict * gave props (9 Jul 2009):

    Are they poisonous? Anyways, Nice details and nice shot!

  • Tricia Bergland

    Tricia Bergland   said (9 Jul 2009):

    Glad he lives in NM and not MA..... I'm not a fan of spiders, esp. big and hairy ones.

  • Jeff Weber

    Jeff Weber gave props (9 Jul 2009):

    Nothing terrifying about this guy. What a little beauty!!

  • Jesse Greer

    Jesse Greer gave props (11 Jul 2009):

    Nice tarantula!

  • diah mintara

    diah mintara gave props (12 Jul 2009):

    creepily beautiful!! love it!

  • Kevin Kabuki

    Kevin Kabuki gave props (14 Jul 2009):

    these things taste horrible. Make for a cool photo though.

  • Dunja Kolar

    Dunja Kolar gave props (15 Jul 2009):

    great photo!!like it

  • Nelson Campbell

    Nelson Campbell   gave props (22 Jul 2009):

    So cool!

  • Karen Roberts Foto Fiddler

    Karen Roberts Foto Fiddler gave props (27 Jul 2009):

    Awesome Awesome!

  • Rebecca Sheehan

    Rebecca Sheehan gave props (18 Aug 2009):

    ewww so gross, but nice shot!

  • Al Kuhn

    Al Kuhn gave props (10 Sep 2009):

    Ouch, I think it got me!

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