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Windscorpion - Eremobates?

Windscorpion - Eremobates?
Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California, USA
April 25, 2008
Size: 4cm
Medium-sized windscorpion found underneath a slab of asphalt. This was by far the most defensive arachnid I've ever found... It appeared relatively calm after I discovered it and took some photos, so I decided to see if I could get it to walk onto my hand. I put my right hand about six inches in front of it and lightly touched its back legs with my left hand to get it to walk, and it immediately turned around and lunged at my fingers (though I pulled them away in time). After that it would always turn to face me and get ready to charge if I made any sudden movements.

nice find
from its size i would guess its Eremobatid and not Ammotrechula, those are the only 2 types i know of being in the area but im no expert.
heres some pics of a local Eremobatid ive been trying to raise
http://atshq.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12591

the reaction you got from it was pretty normal, very feisty critters, you do realize these arnt venomous

 
Re: nice find
Yep, I knew they were not venomous, but I have heard they can give a very nasty bite.

What kind of habitat have you set up for your windscorpion? I have read that they often do not make good captives because they are so high-strung and can be difficult to feed, though I've never met anyone who actually tried keeping them. Is yours doing well so far?

 
yeah
mines been doing well i guess, its been buried deep in a sealed chamber since late last year. its an immature so im hoping to get it to molt, wold be another first for me. i agree fully they are somewhat difficult to keep alive, they easily pace themselves to death if not set up to account for the habit with obstacles and things to break the pattern. feeding isnt too problematic they tend to devour most anything and want more though im not sure about over feeding of adults my experience is sort of limited to keeping a few adults around egg laying time and the manual incubation of one batch of eggs that hatched and escaped from the incubator, we were finding them around the house 8 months later so apparently they didnt do too bad living off escaped crickets and german cockroaches