#brachypelma smithi

[aviculor]

[homogeenilamppu]

Just realised I haven't showed her off on here so, here's my pretty girl, Pumpkin 🎃

[katescrittersandcreations]

Pax just chilling on the back of my hand

[cryptickludovick]

More Wolf close-ups for your dashboard (B. Smithi)

[brachypelmas]

freshly peeled grimm! so proud of them!

i think they've just about outgrown this little vial now, ill have to move them into something bigger once their exoskeleton is hardened

[sparkelingspectres]

Just got a new tarantula I named him spaghettio❤️❤️❤️

[onenicebugperday]

This may be random but I just got reminded that when I was a kid I have dressed up as Brachypelma smithi on my birthday once and even pretended to kick hair.

I have also casted Littlest Pet Shop (cute, highly stylized figurines of various animals) spiders as existing species. Including the actual Pteronichilus murinus.

What a beautiful spider she is! And I'd lose my mind if I saw a kid dressed up as a tarantula pretending to kick hairs that's incredible

[parakaryote]

Catching up on Invertober, day 6: Mexican redknee tarantula!

[Image description: A digital drawing of a Mexican redknee tarantula. It is a large spider with light orange “knee” joints on the legs and pedipalps, a light orange cephalothorax with a large dark grey spot, a dark grey abdomen, and thick hairs on the abdomen and parts of the legs, pedipalps, and chelicerae.

Text above: Mexican redknee tarantula

Text below: Arthropoda • Arachnida • Araneae • Theraphosidae • Brachypelma smithi

End ID.]

[thistlebugs]

Introducing the first of my pets, Paprika the Brachypelma boehmei tarantula! She was my first exotic.

(I took this right before cleaning and refilling her water, pls ignore that)

I also have a Grammastola pulchra, Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, and a Brachypelma smithi. I don't have good pics of them and they're still slings.

[xvalstarinex]

Introducing My Tarantulas, Part One:

The first tarantula I ever got was Matilda. She is a Brachypelma smithi, commonly known as the Mexican Red Knee tarantula. This is because her species is primarily from Mexico and they have red knees.

Here is a picture of me holding her. She is incredibly dirty despite never once having made a burrow.

[blubushie]

Hello! I saw a tarantula at the pet store (I live in Oregon) that was brown with really bright orange legs but the tank didn't have a label and I'm wondering if you know what breed it was. I'm sorry I don't have a better description

Either Brachypelma smithi or Brachypelma hamorii. Both are commonly called the Mexican Redknee Tarantula. B. smithi is a bit more common in the pet trade as their leg colour is more vibrant, but B. hamorii is still sold at the price of a B. smithi to trick buyers. If it's a chain pet store it's more likely to be B. hamorii, but if it's a small store it's more likely to be B. smithi.

If the colour was very vibrant, it's almost guaranteed to be B. smithi.

[aviculor]

I love when one of the big girls molts. My B. smithi looks stunning

[stangevoice-p-audax-bryantae]

Spidecember day 19

Character: Ms Tarantula

Series: The Bad Guys

Species: Mexican redknee tarantula (Brachypelma hamorii or Brachypelma smithi)

Anatomical accuracy: 8/10

While her book equivalent is Mr. Tarantula, I'm specifically referring to the movie version.

She's part of "The Bad Guys", a group of commonly maligned animals that turned to crime due to life giving them few other options. The full group is Mr Wolf, Mr Snake, Mr Shark, Mr Piranha, and Ms Tarantula.

Mhm.

As compared to the actual red-knee tarantula, the black segments are a nice burgundy.

(B. hamorii on the left, B. smithi on the right.)

Now, obviously actual spiders don't have that humanoid torso, but I do like the usage of the pedipalps as arms. Or well, arms instead of pedipalps?

Though points off for the legs connecting to the abdomen.

Something I didn’t mention on our last tarantula, but tarantulas aren’t true spiders. All spiders are order Araneae. Most spiders are suborder Opisthothelae. However, unlike most of our spiders with real life counterparts, tarantulas are not in the infraorder Araneomorphae. Instead, they, alongside trapdoor spiders, make up the infraorder Mygalomorphae. The main difference is the direction the fangs point- araneomorphs have fangs crossing horizontally, while mygalomorphs (and suborder Mesothelae) have fangs that point downwards.

There's other differences as well, but that's the easiest to remember. 4/7.

Speaking of fangs- I’ve already stated my feelings on human teeth for spiders, but her tooth gap ivokes the shape of a spider’s fangs. Vaguely.

Quite admirably, her walk cycle seems to be referenced off of actual tarantulas. It's difficult to describe, but the order the legs move in is familiar.

Uricating hairs, for those unfamiliar, are the fuzzy hairs on a tarantula's abdomen. They can be flicked off when the spider is distressed, irritating the eyes or nose of a potential predator and giving them time to run.

While never specifically using them, she is rather fluffy. All in all, while toony, she is still quite nice.

FINAL RATING

6/10 I like her tiny laptop.

...This review is over.

[the-incradible]

I recognize the difference between a brachypelma hemorii and a brechypelma smithi (tarantulas) on a school trip once.

I have a clear memory of realising I don't know how my own reflection looks like and what my name is.

movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….

girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.

[theraphosablondie]

every post on r/tarantulas

*picture of tarantula literally just sitting there chillin* HELP!!!! Death curl????? Is my tarantula dead????

*picture of a tarantula just absolutely destroyed and decimated* Well looks like ol Og Begog fell out of her cage last night. How do I save her?

*video of dude handling aggressive old world species that already has 40+ comments* New T

*literally the most blurry and shitty photograph ever taken of a t molt* can anyone tell me the sex of my tarantula?

*pic of tupperware container with the lid held together by electrical tape* getting a Brachypelma Smithi today, is this a good enclosure for her?

*80 more blurry pictures of t molts* what's the sex of my t

[brachypelmas]

everyone has a super dark butt this morning