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Live - From Tarantula City it's Tarantula Kong - Aphonopelma hentzi

Live - From Tarantula City it's Tarantula Kong - Aphonopelma hentzi
Konawa, Seminole County, Oklahoma, USA
August 5, 2007
Size: 4"
I went home to Konawa in Seminole County this weekend where I grew up and I had a list of critters that I wanted to get and believe it or not I got 95% of them. We have some really cool and HUGE critters in Seminole County....don't know why....just do. About 36 years ago Mom and Dad built this house but they built it on what has to be the biggest Tarantula nest and breeding ground in Oklahoma. It was very common to sit out on the porch at night and see 10 or so crawl across the porch. We've even had them get in the house! Dad used to like golf and he would hit golf balls down into the pasture toward a telephone pole then go get them and hit them back up into the yard. Occasionally, while he was practicing, one of these big boys would cross his path and, yep you guessed it, he would golf it across the yard. Pretty cool stuff when you're a kid and is still cool now. I had hoped to get a Tarantula Hawk this weekend but I didn't see any.

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Great story
Hahaha!! It's pretty funny your dad saw fit to just putt them across the yard. What a hoot! Those are really nice pics btw. Seems like miss spidey has seen a few battles.

Moved
Moved from Aphonopelma.

Great
images. Two of the best on this page.
I think they call these the Texas Brown.
Don't know how many species in your area, so moved to genus for now.

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