Pinktoe Tarantula

Wonderful picture ceherzog! One can really see the pinktoes and wonders about the rest of the body....Great! =)

Great shot :)

Oooh lovely!

I've managed to get it there manually. If you zoom in you'll see it's now right at the lodge, at the lake. You might be able to refine the location to where you found the spider.

I think this one here is correct: http://wikimapia.org/11700278/Sacha-Lodge

Claire, if you have a look at the Sacha lodge website, on their map they put the lodge right on the Rio Napo, east of Coca. http://www.sachalodge.com/english/map.php

Very cool and mysterious.

That's certainly the right area now, but it seems far from the water... The Sacha lodge is accessed by boat right, or did you go inland much?

I think that what happened is that there are several places named Coca in Ecuador, and the mapping system picked up the wrong one.

Fantastic Claire! Did you know that Karen has created a mission for the arachnids of Ecuador? http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/16885008 Just wondering: do you have right map location? The maps point to the southern highlands and the Sacha lodge is in the Oriente if I remember well (I was nearby 10 years ago).

yes it is ceherzog Avicularia avicularia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinktoe_tarantula

pink toe tarantula?

The stuff nightmares are made of... brrrrr...

Wow that is a very creepy and very cool photo!!

Nice !

Nice!

wow ..looks scary