Comments on: It’s tarantula time on Mount Diablo

By: vanessa

vanessa — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:46:21 +0000

Can you show or send a picture to me of a picture of
a trantula breaking into a lot of peices.

By: Elaine Shaw

Elaine Shaw — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:05:45 +0000

I live on a wooded hillside in Orinda. I was shoked to find a large brown hairy spider in my BEDROOM (worst possible place) this evening. It’s body was huge and the legs very hairy. I’d say it was a good three to four inches diameter. I checked on-line and am pretty certain it was a tarantula. I remember visiting driving up to the top of Mt. Diablo one October day several years and witnessing a mass of tarantula’s crawling down the hill side.

Does this sound credible? Is it common for a tarantula to enter a home? My house (rented) is filled with lots of perfect spider habitats, due to poor construction, neglect, etc. I would like to know whether this is a rare event, or whether its reasonable to think it may be a repeat phenonema.

By: Patricia Brubaker

Patricia Brubaker — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:02:08 +0000

We have found two of these in our house in the last 24 hours. One had apparently fallen into a tupperware containor and was stuck. Both spiders were carefully taken outside and let go. How can I keep them from coming into my house when I do not know how they are getting inside in the first place. Any ideas?

By: Carmen C. Montufar

Carmen C. Montufar — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:49:35 +0000

beautiful creatures, thank you.
Ray Mengel is my son in law, wonderful creature too.