You know . . . you may have a gold mine without even realizing it.
One Texas Tan can have up to 750 babies from 1 egg sack, and people (such as myself) will pay $20.00 per spiderling.
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One Texas Tan can have up to 750 babies from 1 egg sack, and people (such as myself) will pay $20.00 per spiderling.
Dang, RC&D! Investment opportunity!
We don't have tarantulas where I am, but our wolf and fishing spiders have been seen with leg spans easily the size of culvers cheeseburgers. I don't mind them, even hold the wolf spiders sometimes, but it still takes me by surprise when I find out there are two extra passengers in the fishing boat after I leave shore lol. They usually get booted out of the boat. Sometimes they make it back in, sometimes I drive faster..
Oh man. Culver's is delicious.
Never seen one that big, but I'm sure they're out there in the woods. If they stay out of my house, we're good.
You guys would love the goliath birdeater tarantula.
The hand belongs to a full-grown man.
I would love to get a young, female goliath birdeater, but I don't think my girlfriend would like it very much.
This species has fangs that may actually be quite larger than the fangs of many venomous snakes.
And no, this tarantula is not particularly dangerous . . . except for the urticaring hairs (discussed in a prior post) that it "flicks" quite aggressively.
When this spider lines and surrounds its burrow with silk, it deliberately places these irritating hairs in the silk as a defensive measure.
I think it's pretty bad-ass that a spider uses punji-stick ****y traps.
The hand belongs to a full-grown man.
I would love to get a young, female goliath birdeater, but I don't think my girlfriend would like it very much.
This species has fangs that may actually be quite larger than the fangs of many venomous snakes.
And no, this tarantula is not particularly dangerous . . . except for the urticaring hairs (discussed in a prior post) that it "flicks" quite aggressively.
When this spider lines and surrounds its burrow with silk, it deliberately places these irritating hairs in the silk as a defensive measure.
I think it's pretty bad-ass that a spider uses punji-stick ****y traps.
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And yet it looks so cuddly.
I think I actually saw one of those in the Smithsonian many years ago.
You're a little bit nuts, you know, Kevin.
I think I actually saw one of those in the Smithsonian many years ago.
You're a little bit nuts, you know, Kevin.
Only when I forget to take my medicine.
Pun intended?
