Tarantula mating pics

[jmugleston]

Wow!!!
Thank you for sharing these.

So what's up with them climbing the walls? Do you just let them go and do their thing and then catch them? Is the room empty?

That's my invertebrate room. Just that portion of the wall is empty. The rest is covered in shelving for all the spider, centipede, scorpion, etc. cages. Some species are paired outside their cage to help better the chances of a successful pairing. They're allowed to mate and typically when done the female will retreat to her cage and I just catch the male and put him back in his cage.