#pumpkin patch tarantula

[insectomoe]

A little late for Spooky posting, but here she issss

[perr1e]

Pumpkin patch tarantula halloween

agere moodbaord!!

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Cw for spider! | My best friend mostly requested this and bc I love tarantulas I had to do it!! This one very well suited a Halloween theme and bc its almost halloweennn I was able to make this! :3

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I kinda went with a slightly nostalgic kinda vibe wit it, I love nostalgic halloween stufff sooo :DDD

ooo yes also halloween requests r very much welcome if anyone wants to request anything halloween related :o

[pigeon-feet]

all my guys

apologies for the genic (first pic) being somehow Less photogenic than the curly hair (last pic, ass)

[walkingmoth]

So, the picture is shit but this is Trundle, my Hapalopus formosus, giving me some real good evidence that she would benefit from a heat source. That black beside her? That's the stove that we were just cooking lunch on. The air temp near her viv is warm but far from hot, and she has herself pressed against the acrylic nearest the stove. In the couple days she's emerged from her burrow, this is the second time I've caught her doing just this; it is not a behavior she displays when the stove is off. She's got plenty of room to go to the cooler side of her viv, too.

[mirkwood-trash]

Leon got a slight upgrade which he did not appreciate . He's grown so much but he's still so tiny 🥺

[tarantulafreak]

My smallest baby, Greg. I’ve not seen them since getting them as they choose to remain inside their hide, behind their elaborate dirt curtains and dirt mounds.

[0strolistt]

So I literally bought this beauty yesterday and today she is moulting. Hope it goes well

[hazel2468]

So real talk...

I didn't anticipate getting THIS attached to my little bug buddies. Like. I knew I would like having them.

I would fucking KILL for this tiny little mantis and this eensy weensy spider. I talk to them. I check up on them and give them a "good morning" every morning. Both of them look at me when I speak to them. Bracken has this adorable little habit of waving his pedipalps or one of his little paws at me (and yes! Spiders have paws). I don't handle either of them but I wish I could pet them (and I may feel more comfortable handling them when they're both bigger, they're just so tiny right now).

I fucking love these little guys. I want more of them. I adore them. Bug hyperfixation is back in full swing.

[hopefulqueer]

They grow up so fast...

(Sling vs nine months later)

(Image description: two photos of the same pumpkin patch dwarf tarantula, nine months apart. In the first image, the spider is on a piece of moss and is seen next to a single index fingertip and is roughly the same size as it. Her abdomen is very large compared to her head in the proportions of a baby tarantula. In the second image, the spider is climbing the plastic wall of her enclosure and the same hand is behind her for scale. She is now over half the length of the palm, and has grown into her adult proportions. End of image description.)

[ratbugs]

B O O ! have some spooky critters to get into the spirit of the haloween season!

marbled orb weaver or pumpkin spider (Araneus marmoreus) photos by Will Thomas

ghost garden spider (Hibana gracilis) photos by Kim Fleming

pumpkin toadlet (Brachycephalus ephippium) photos by Edélcio Muscat

batwing coral crab (Carpilius corallinus) photos by Florent Charpin and Scott Jones

blue-fang skeleton tarantula (Ephebopus cyanognathus) photos by Hervé Galliffet

pumpkin patch tarantula (Hapolopus sp. Colombia) photos by Tempisch and Tarantula Collective

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credit/references (in order):

https://bugguide.net/node/view/589695

https://bugguide.net/node/view/717663/bgpage

https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.com%2Fanimals%2Farticle%2Fnew-pumpkin-toadlet-species-found-glows-in-the-dark&t=ZDVhOTUwMTE4ZWQ2MmU0YzdhNjFjMWFjZjJlZmY2NGFjYzAxODJiZCw2MGU4ZjI5OWNjZTA3N2VlNDc1Y2JhOGNkYjUwODAzZDFlODAzNjFl&ts=1725731996

https://gizmodo.com/glowing-pumpkin-toadlet-cant-hear-its-own-tiny-scream-1846782367

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/409511

https://reefguide.org/carib/pixhtml/batwingcoralcrab2.html

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145399288

https://a-z-animals.com/animals/pumpkin-patch-tarantula/

https://www.thetarantulacollective.com/caresheets/hapolopus-sp-colombia

[ghostlycorvid]

State of the pet bugs (most of them anyway)

Maple making shiny eyes for more crickets bc I have only given her a couple small ones this week.

My two sensitive babies. Jumpers with light colored heads look like they're gonna cry with those little shiny eyes. The nameless A. purpurea escaped last night and went on a very tense two minute adventure before I managed to get to it enough to get a capture cup near for it to walk into.

My C. versicolor has been REALLY webbing up its enclosure this week and is spending a lot more time out of the hide. I feel a little bad that after its next molt, I'll be relocating it to an adult sized enclosure.

My cryptids, the moss mantis and new giant shield mantis.

My eternally furious babies, my desert scorpion and Autumn, my pumpkin patch tarantula. Her cheap ass Amazon enclosure is stuck partly open and I'm so glad it closed enough to keep her in but this replacement tank needs to get here FASTER....

[grubloved]

found a really scary ai generated Spirit Animal website with very upsetting bugs. please admire a selection

yeah man thats a scorpion. good job.

aside from the images also i love the idea of someone looking intentionally for arizona bark scorpion spirit animal information. if this is your guide you may enjoy hiding under bark. forever

rest under the cut for long post reasons. theres a lot of insane ones in there

here are some more. i saved the best one for last if ur impatient just scroll to the bottom

everythings wrong. the legs tapering off into nowhere. the single scary beady eye. the?? face??

this one makes me feel bad. i dont like it. it looks like her head was scooped off her body. why does she have a mane like a horse. what is up with the ass eyeballs. i really dont like this one i feel gross

and this guy which is not what a chiton looks like at all but is actually really cute.

another funny thing abt this site is i think because of the recent boom in jumping spider popularity every time this ai generates a spider it looks like a jumping spider...kind of.

great work everybody. especially a fan of "sea spider" just chilling in the ocean i guess and "pumpkin patch tarantula" and her very tiny pumpkins.

in this case the ai seems to have freaked out and thought, what can i do to make an appealing spider? big bright eyes? as many as i can?? all over??

ok this next one is the worst one. so egregiously bad. i cannot imagine anyone ever thinking this is a real animal. it's an article for the long-winged kite spider. here is a picture of what she actually looks like. just so you can soothe ur eyes from all these scary fake bugs. shes plump and pointy and stylish.

ok ready? heres the article version.

what the fuck is that.

[dazz-taran]

Tarantula tour? 🥺👉👈

I have 1, my pretty baby

Your baby’s adorable!

And yes I can, thank you

Monty my Mexican fireleg, the one who started it all.

Tatiana my GGB, very shy

Ezra my olive Trinidad, recently confirmed male.

Pandora my Pumpkin Patch dwarf, they’re a bit bigger now than in this picture, probably closer 1/2 an inch

Babbie my OBT, very sassy

Lover my C elegans, one of my favorite species I just love the little heart 🧡

Odette my Brazilian white knee, I have enjoyed keeping this species another very pretty tarantula

Lil giant my Hispaniolan giant, still very little close to 3/4 of an inch, I’m very excited to watch this one grow!

Unicorn my rear horned baboon, another species I absolutely love mines very docile and a very good eater

And that is all that I have pictures of!

I also have a

Purple earth tiger

Curly hair

Feather leg baboon

Antilles pink toe

Guatemalan tiger rump

Ornamental red slate

All of which are either in hiding most of the time or are too small to take pictures of, but I do intend on sharing if I catch them out!

[batslime]

It’s hard to get footage of him on my phone but I finally got to see my pumpkin patch dwarf tarantula eatinnnng

[mirkwood-trash]

Leon had a molt that I was just Barely able to sex lol. Female! It's nice to know I'll have more years with the lil guy ☺️

[illogicat]

perhaps you've already posted pics of them and I just missed them ;n; but I just saw that you have scorpions? And I see cool tarantula posts on your blog, what species do you keep? And may I see them?

Omg I don’t think I ever answered this I’m so sorry.

(WARNING for the arachnophobes, there’s a photo of a big spider at the end of this post)

Unfortunately, I no longer have inverts due to my breaking up with the partner that I had them and my reptiles with and selling the tarantulas off. But if I remember correctly, we had Arizona bark scorpions, Asian forest scorpions, one Florida bark scorpion (that had like 60 babies two weeks after getting her asdfghjkl), a pair of flat rock scorpions and emperor scorpions.

As for the tarantulas. I had (please don’t come at me I can only remember common names anymore):

1 Mexican redknee

1 Mexican painted leg

1 Mexican Fireleg

1 Rosehair

1 Chaco Golden Knee

1 Arizona blond

1 Costa Rica Zebra Knee

2 Guyana pinktoes

2 Antilles Pinktoes

1 Green bottle blue

2 Cuban Bronze

1 Brazilian blue beauty

2 salmon pink birders

2 Brazilian blacks (ugh they were my favorite sis have another one in a heartbeat)

4 curly hairs

1 Colombian pumpkin patch (large variety)

And 1 King baboon sling that I was terrified of, but I got it in a lot my friend was selling for dirt cheap and he didn’t know what he had.

I THINK that’s all of them…photo of the bigger of the two Brazilian blacks which was honestly still kind of on the smaller size lol.