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  1. #Tarantulas (TBC) 🕷️
    Upcoming Australian creature-feature horror film, featuring an evolved species of deadly spiders in the outback.
    #CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. #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

  8. ‘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/

  9. ‘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/

  10. ‘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/

  11. 𝗗𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘁 1500 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮'𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗸𝗲- 𝗲𝗻 𝗸𝗼𝗲𝗸𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗮𝗸𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻

    De douane in het Duitse Keulen heeft zo'n 1500 tarantula's gevonden die verstopt waren in cake- en koekverpakkingen. De spinnen werden op de luchthaven van Keulen onderschept.

    rtl.nl/nieuws/opmerkelijk/arti

    #DuitseDouane #Tarantulas #CakeKoek

  12. 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

  13. So, apparently, if you ever want to scare a group of workmen, mention that you have tarantulas in the attic, and request that they just shoo them out of the way if they see them. To be fair, they mostly hide from people, but I like my tarantulas and don’t want them squished. Plus, they’re the reason I don’t have a mouse problem in the attic.

    #spiders #tarantulas

  14. 🐾 ■ Alertan del crecimiento del tráfico de tarántulas a nivel mundial: "Son como los que coleccionan Pokémon, quieren 'atraparlas' todas" ■ La caza furtiva de estos arácnidos podría provocar la extinción de algunas especies.
    huffingtonpost.es/life/animale

    #tarantulas #aranas #animales

  15. What happens when you mix a disturbed girl with a pet tarantula? You get yourself a mid-70s horror film called Kiss of the Tarantula and that's what's being reviewed on this week's B-Movie Enema.

    Read the new review at wp.me/p9XNnZ-5xl

    #blog #review #70s #spiders #tarantulas #horror

  16. Out stargazing in the mountains last night when my dog noticed we had a visitor. Never seen a tarantula in the wild before- they’re super cool! A quick search suggests that it’s a California ebony tarantula.

  17. Thousands of tarantulas will soon emerge across the US. Here’s what to expect. For certain regions of America, things are about to get weird with an influx of tarantulas.
    sciencefocus.com/nature/tarant

    #science #tarantulas

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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