Tarantulas in New Mexico

These New Mexican tarantulas are much smaller than the tarantulas we used to find in the Bay Area of California or the tarantulas of Utah and Arizona. They're also a lot spunkier (like most critters in NM) -- they move fast and you'd better be prepared to move with them if you want any photos. And they seem oddly out of focus in most shots even when they actually are in focus. I don't know what species either one is, though I think the New Mexico ones are genus Aphonopelma and I think the CA and Utah ones are the same species -- anyone know a good tarantula guide?

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 2017: I spotted this one ...

All photos are copyright Akkana Peck,
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA).
Please inquire if you're interested in commercial use.

Shallow Sky home | Mail Comments