Tarantulas and Spiders

[Mephibosheth1]

Don't you get stung a lot??

[3skulls]

Never been stung when i know they are there. Last time I got stung was from a Yellow jacket that went up my sleeve when I was on my bike.

On cool mornings they are slow. I used to have a ton of pics but moved them all off my phone. It's like holding a T, you have to be calm.

[3skulls]

B. lats are in. If dubia freak you out at all, these guys will give you the creeps.
They are fast and very roach like. The dubia don't seem like a roach at all compared to these.



I opened the box and they were everywhere before I knew it.
I'll have to figure out how to sex them. Not sure if I have any adults yet.

[kat_black181]

No worries you have a ton of tech support right here! Get one or 50. Lol

That's awesome.
On cool mornings I go out and look for wasp. Here are a couple of repost.

Um, WOAH. Too close for comfort.

[Himitsu]

That's awesome.
On cool mornings I go out and look for wasp. Here are a couple of repost.

Never been stung when i know they are there. Last time I got stung was from a Yellow jacket that went up my sleeve when I was on my bike.

On cool mornings they are slow. I used to have a ton of pics but moved them all off my phone. It's like holding a T, you have to be calm.

I'd like them a lot more if they didn't sting, for they are pretty neat insects. Don't think I'd ever like Yellow Jackets, though. They have killed off entire hives of our honey bees before and they are mean little bast... buggers.

[3skulls]

Yeah that yellow jacket that went up my sleeve tore me up. It took a min to get pulled over, my gloves off and my jacket off. He was stinging me and biting me.

[3skulls]

Chaco in her new skin


One of my Medium sized OBTs


C. fasciatum

[Himitsu]

Ooh, an Orange Bitey Thing! That's a pretty spider! I remember someone joking around that that is what they called their OBTs.

[Mephibosheth1]

Just did a quick search about OBTs.....is their bite really that painful/dangerous??

[Mike41793]

Just did a quick search about OBTs.....is their bite really that painful/dangerous??

They're old world so its worse than new world, but not as bad as some other old worlds. H. Maculata, S. calceatum, and the pokies are all probably worse than an obt bite. In the wild baboons eat the "baboon tarantulas" so to avoid being eaten they have to pack a decent bite. OW spiders don't have the urticating hairs like a lot of NW species do. In general, for any animals, i don't think OW's aren't as advanced, evolutionarily speaking. (Don't quote me though lol). Like boas being live bearers compared to pythons laying eggs. I think livebearing is more evolved. I've read that vipers are considered the furthest evolved snakes, but only like 1/3 of the species of vipers are OW. Stuff is just more primitive there i guess lol.

Well anyways besides me dumping my thoughts out, what i also wanted to say was that obts aren't that bad. I got one as my 2nd T. You could get one as a first T as long as its small and you're smart about everything. I really like obt's, got 2 myself. My smaller one just molted today