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  1. I hadn't seen either my Caribena versicolor or my Psalmopoeus irminia in quite a while. It's really not that uncommon for a #tarantula to keep itself hidden way for what feels like impossibly long stretches of time but it seemed remarkably so this time.

    I went to do a wellness check and discovered one VERY annoyed P. irminia and one VERY crunchy C. versicolor. It's a shame because the C. versicolor was always one of our favorites. We picked it up as a tiny little sling 6.5 years ago from the Show Me Reptiles Tarantula Takeover in St. Louis, MO - where I also met
    #TarantulaKat and #Petko of #theDarkDen.

    I can't believe we're down to only 3
    #tarantulas from our peak of 17. Tarantulas were an intense #SpecialInterest that lasted years.

  2. #Trapdoor #spiders are small, secretive relatives of #tarantulas. Females live their entire lives underground in silk-lined burrows sealed with a hinged, camouflaged door. They wait quietly for vibrations above, emerging only to catch prey that wanders too close.
    #Entomology #Ecology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2025/10/ent10292501

  3. ‘Noticeable smell’ leads to discovery of hundreds of tarantulas packed in cake boxes

    BERLIN (AP) — Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Animal-welfare #CologneBonnairport #Customs #germany #Science #Seizure #Shipment #Tarantulas #Vietnam
    newsbeep.com/us/12516/

  4. ‘Noticeable smell’ leads to discovery of hundreds of tarantulas packed in cake boxes

    BERLIN (AP) — Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Animal-welfare #CologneBonnairport #Customs #germany #Science #Seizure #Shipment #Tarantulas #Vietnam
    newsbeep.com/us/12516/

  5. ‘Noticeable smell’ leads to discovery of hundreds of tarantulas packed in cake boxes

    BERLIN (AP) — Arachnophobes beware: Customs officials on Monday released photos from a seizure of roughly 1,500 young…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Animal-welfare #CologneBonnairport #Customs #germany #Science #Seizure #Shipment #Tarantulas #Vietnam
    newsbeep.com/us/12516/

  6. Show of hands for people who used little clay on string bits to fish these big boys out of their holes as a kid?

    #Tarantulas #spiders #spidersoftheworld

  7. An unexpected spotting. IDed as a Singapore Frontdoor Tarantula (Phlogiellus inermis), seen resting on a leaf next to the path at one-north Park: Fusionpolis South, Singapore, on 21 Nov 2023. These spiders are usually nocturnal, so seeing one in daylight is unusual.

    On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/1 ]

    #iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Spiders #Araneae #Tarantulas #Theraphosidae

  8. Meet _Chilobrachys natanicharum_, a newly described tarantula from Thailand with legs that iridesce with "a blue-violet hue resembling the color of electrical sparks". You seriously gotta see this. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/10 :OpenAccess:

    An article about some previously described metallic blue tarantulas from southeast Asia, including another Chilobrachys: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

    #spiders #tarantulas #Araneae #Theraphosidae #Thailand #taxonomy #arachnews #OpenAccess

  9. My #Theraphosa blondi finally let me have this #molt and it was both large and intact enough that I am pretty sure I can officially determine that she is female! 🎉

    That flappy bit between her front book lungs that is resting on a part of the forceps is, I believe, her spermatheca.

    #Tarantula #Tarantulas #TarantulaKeeper #ILikeTarantulasMoreThanPeople

    Here is a reference photo for comparison (tho I can't comment on the reliability):
    https://www.mymonsters.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/THEBLO_FS.jpg

  10. Some tidbits of #OpenAccess #Arachnews:

    - a new high-level #phylogeny of #Solifugae, the bizarre and enigmatic arachnids known as "camel spiders", "wind scorpions", "sun spiders", and so on. From Siddharth Kulkarni at UW-Madison's Sharma lab and featuring all the usual suspects in the authors list, like solifuge expert Paula Cushing, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Danilo Harms, etc. :OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.10

    - #tarantulas (family #Theraphosidae) in the wild in Argentina! Including many Plesiopelma aspidosperma and "the first published color photograph of an adult specimen of Cyriocosmus versicolor based on a reliable taxonomic identification". 🔓 researchgate.net/publication/3

    #arachnids #spiders #Araneae

  11. One nice thing about working until the middle of the night is that I catch more of our #tarantulas out and being active when I get home. Here are some pics of the ones who welcomed me back tonight.

    #Theraphosa blondi (Goliath Birdeater Tarantula)
    #Pterinochilus murinus “Usumbara” (Orange Baboon Tarantula)
    #Tliltocatl albopilosum (Honduran Curlyhair Tarantula)
    #Caribena versicolor (Antilles Pinktoe Tarantula)

    #tarantula #TarantulasOfTheFediverse #TarantulaAddict #ILikeTarantulasMoreThanPeople

  12. I ordered a Neoholothele incei 'Gold' from Swift's Invertebrates. He includes a freebie in every order but the current freebies listed on his site for orders under $100 are some smaller centipedes. I told him there is no need to send a freebie because centipedes give me the willies (tho I'd consider keeping Scolopendra gigantea). To my happy surprise, he included a Brachypelma albopilosum with my order instead!

    #Tarantula #Tarantulas #TarantulaAddict #ILikeTarantulasMoreThanPeople

  13. During feeding time for the #tarantulas this evening, the Pterinochilus murinus bolted which resulted in me briefly handling it - something I'm not a fan of generally but especially not with that species. Their common name is Orange Baboon #Tarantula (OBT) but they are better known as Orange Bitey Thing.

    #TarantulaAddict #TarantulaKeeper #TarantulaKeeping #ILikeTarantulasMoreThanPeople

  14. @ginny Pickle and Ember are two #beardeddragons. Cricket and Coconut are our #cats. Arabica and Artemis are our #tarantulas. Everyone gets renamed as needed.

  15. I got a rare treat tonight! I looked over and saw my elusive Chilobrachys sp. 'Electric Blue' out of its burrow. I snapped as many photos as I could without distrubing it too much and these are the four best.

    #Tarantula #Tarantulas #TarantulasOfTheFediverse #ILikeTarantulasMoreThanPeople #Spider #Spiders #Invert #Inverts #SpidersOfTheFediverse #InvertsOfTheFediverse

  16. @ginny Pickle and Ember are two #beardeddragons. Cricket and Coconut are our #cats. Arabica and Artemis are our #tarantulas. Everyone gets renamed as needed.

  17. @ginny Pickle and Ember are two #beardeddragons. Cricket and Coconut are our #cats. Arabica and Artemis are our #tarantulas. Everyone gets renamed as needed.