#tarantula handling

[howdoesone]

How does one get a Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula to model for a jewelry advertisement?

Introduction to the Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula The Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula, scientifically known as Poecilotheria metallica, is an arachnid that captures attention with its striking cobalt blue coloration and intricate patterns. Native to the forests of Andhra Pradesh in India, this tarantula is often compared to a living gem, making it a fascinating candidate for a jewelry…

[timblrdrake]

Who's Catalina? I heard ya on tha phone with bernie

oh. you weren’t supposed to hear that.. it’s not my place to say

she’s…

she’s a terrible person and she hurt your dad.

[cyanocoraxx]

august 8th is tarantula appreciation day so here's some Ts I've had through my 8 years of raising them ♥️♥️♥️ in 8 years I've never been bitten. they're nowhere near as evil as they're made out to be

[hazel2468]

I will never understand why some folks are just SO adamant that certain kinds of pets are evil, vicious things that are SOOO dangerous to have in your home and "What if it gets out and KILLS you?"

And for the record, I'm not talking about venomous snakes or anything (which also are not Evil Creatures Out to Get You, by the way). I'm talking about the idiots who respond to me having tarantulas like they're going to break out of their enclosures in the night, seek me out, and then bite me over and over so that they can kill and eat me.

Buddy I can't even move shit on the shelf above her without Dancer bolting to her web to hide. If given the choice every single one of my spiders would RUN rather than bite. Even mister Spicy Menace runs before he threat poses, and he has about as much rage as one can pack into a teeny tiny little one inch fella.

I see this about so many animals, especially the pets that are considered "weird" or "for freaks" (that was a fun one). If owning my spiders makes me a freak.... Really? THAT'S what makes me a freak? Alright. Sure.

People who are stupid and uneducated about animals have no business commenting on animal care or safety, but somehow they're ALWAYS the loudest.

[ratcandy]

fucked up and evil spider that eats all your followers and calls you a bitch

[the-arteest]

other two spidersonas belong to @idiot-mushroom and @teddy-beartv!

[dogwithabug]

agnes baby pic bc i cant get over how tiny she used to be

[hopefulqueer]

BIG gummy worm for baby Bean

[pennaraptor]

i refilled the beast's water and she was scrunched up on the wall but stretched out in her Is That Food ? manner when she felt the vibrations and this is why you always use tongs in there

[joelletwo]

tarantula screenshot ->

TEHRES MY GIRLLLLLLL thats what my girl looks like :333

[youredreamingofroo]

ALRIGHT today is officially a bad day, I just had a fucking big ass spider descend from the ceiling in front of me while I was in the bathroom, I hate it here 😁

[arisharkboi]

Doc Ock dug her first real burrow and I'm so proud of her! 💕🕷 its hard to get a good pic since of course she dug all the way in the back corner

When I have the money I'm going to upgrade her to a deeper enclosure so she'll have even more room to dig

Also another pic of her bc her colors are so pretty!!

[theonetrueyeet]

spider ramble... particularly about false widows

in a Mood™ abt spiders currently, ESPECIALLY false widows. been going back over my arachnid section of the invertebrate module bc i have exams soon and its late and im frustrated abt how false widows get portrayed by the media and percieved by the british public... this is gonna be long and rambly and probably not make much sense and go off in a million and one diff directions sorry i just feel like talking abt spiders. this also came about bc of the big fuckoff house spider that was in my room last night on the top of my door frame but since it was late (like. midnight) and also out of my reach i went eh. ill deal with it in the morning. and then i woke up in the morning and no more spider to deal with! which i should be more stressed about i feel but im so exhausted from the run up to exams and other life stuff that im just like ok cool thats Around somewhere now ig. im guessing it was a female from the size but i cant be sure... anyway without further ado onto the main show.

so here in the uk we arent exactly known for our venomous animals. we have some but they're nothing really that dangerous (to us as humans at least. im not going into venom-prey specificity rn ive had ENOUGH of that recently). we have the european adder (which is also percieved as terrifying bc its a venomous snake but it poses very little risk to us as humans bc they are very shy and i have a lot to say abt adders but thats for another day), wasps, bees, some venomous fish (didnt know this until i found one rockpooling they r pretty neat), even some stinging jellyfish and siphonophores like the portuguese man o war. and then we have the spiders. all species of spider are venomous (minus the uloboridae family, aka the cribellate orb weavers which im not too sure off the top of my head if we have those in the uk... we might have one or two species?? idk but they arent venomous and i think theres another family that has some non venomous spiders BUT THE POINT IM MAKING IS PRETTY MUCH ALL SPIDERS ARE VENOMOUS). there are 650ish spp of spider in the uk and of those VERY FEW are at all medically significant. of these few are the rabbit hutch spider, the cupboard spider, and... the noble false widow. these 3 spiders are all known as false widow spiders. we also occasionally get the meditterreanean false widow, but to my knowledge these only arrive on imports and dont have a population within the uk.

belonging to the genus steatoda, false widows are usually seen as these terrifying death spiders that will kill you just for looking at them when really... they arent actually that dangerous. most cases of bites being severe are either a) a result of an allergy or b) it was actually caused by something other than the bite itself (such as a bacterial infection in the bite, or the "bite" not actually being a bite) or even c) greatly exaggerated by the tabloids (shocker)... like ok we dont have many scary animals in the uk but. we dont need to overexaggerate the ones that really arent as bad as people think! badgers probably pose more of a threat to you than a false widow does. have you seen a badger?! they look so cute but they are VICIOUS those things will FUCK YOU UP and give you TB on top of getting absolutely mauled. a false widow will, at most, just make you feel a bit ill for a couple of days. me personally i would take a falsie over the badger. false widows also only bite in defense! most of the time they bite because you didn't see them and happened to be a very big thing up in their personal space! tbh i would bite too

false widow bites are, to most people, no more harmful than a wasp sting. so its not exactly a fun time but its not exactly the limb destroying death bite that the british media loves to make it out to be. most bites are probably dry bites or have near neglible amounts of venom, so won't cause anything more than a bit of pain. when venom does get involved it gets a bit more complicated bc it depends on how ur body reacts to it. as i said before, most ppl its not much worse than a wasp sting but it can cause things like muscle spasms, sweating, and a raised temperature. it rarely gets worse than that. of course you can be allergic to it which will cause anaphylaxis which is a medical emergency, but this is an exceptional circumstance. most ppl bitten by a false widow will not experience that. the panic over false widows in the uk is a mixture of media-driven mass hysteria and arachnophobia.

anyway in conclusion shoutout brandon collier who did an amazing talk abt false widows during the bhs venom day both at the 2022 and 2023 events both of which i was lucky enough to attend. if i cant go to venom day this year you will see me on the news.

[shinkai-kaiju]

i wish i had a snake so bad >_<

[daisychainsandbowties]

What if your spider crawls inside your ear or like other orifices😳🫣 spiders are terrifying, not to me tho im just curious if ppl with pet spiders have these thoughts

i know that this is a valid fear but you’re asking the spider freak if i worry about a spider crawling into my mouth, like i wouldn’t be having the absolute time of my life

[whippedcloudsofcream]