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My dad has like 60-some tarantulas. At least one T. Blondi, that I know of. Still, this one's a big sucker, and I can't help but be reminded of Starship Troopers when watching this...

>> ^Mcboinkens:

Also, if anyone was wondering why he kept apologizing for letting the spider climb up the wall, tarantulas are quite vulnerable to falls, especially when they are in a position where there abdomen hits the floor first. It can crack, which is lethal in most cases. That's part of the reason why they stay on ground level, often in some type of burrow.


Thank you.

Now for the rest of my life I'll have the knowledge that looking at the walls for spiders is only going to get my feet bitten.

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I suggest adding "tarantula" to the tags, 'cause that's what I'm gonna search for if I want my girlfriend to stop bugging me.

No, no, no, you're doin it wrong.

The proper way to clean a cobra pit is with a flamethrower. Cleans the cobras right out of there, no problem.

This also works on tarantulas, scorpions, hissing cockroaches, the black meat of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipedes, and clowns.

I thought for a while he was just going to ignore mentioning the fangs - that'd be a bit of a shock to get a nice pair of tarantula fangs stuck in your esophagus I think.

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>> ^robbersdog49:
Sublime videography.
I sometimes think the BBC must be using trained animals as the scenes play out so perfectly. The first part with the frog walking across the screen and the tarantula revealed by it's movement in the background was just fantastic filming.

I agree that part was awesome. Perfectly distanced so that the tarantula in the background was not visible until there was some sort of motion.

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Sublime videography.

I sometimes think the BBC must be using trained animals as the scenes play out so perfectly. The first part with the frog walking across the screen and the tarantula revealed by it's movement in the background was just fantastic filming.

highly *deadly black tarantula

>> ^laura:
>> ^lucky760:
Yikes. That looks like a Brown Recluse spider, one of the most poisonous and deadly.

um, actually lucky, we have brown recluses around here. They are small, and are always hiding in small places.
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-identification.htm
I'm no expert, but that guy in her shower looks like a tarantula of some sort...way too big & hairy for a recluse. Also, recluses aren't necessarily deadly, but they will cause the tissue around the bite to become necrotic if not treated.
Also, nothing phases ya after you've been exposed to one of these guys (Goliath bird-eating tarantulas!).


That is a Sparassid and its true that it really looks nothing like a brown recluse, not that identifying a brown recluse is easy. Identifying a spider to species is usually very difficult unless you're a trained arachnologist!

>> ^lucky760:
Yikes. That looks like a Brown Recluse spider, one of the most poisonous and deadly.



um, actually lucky, we have brown recluses around here. They are small, and are always hiding in small places.
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-identification.htm
I'm no expert, but that guy in her shower looks like a tarantula of some sort...way too big & hairy for a recluse. Also, recluses aren't necessarily deadly, but they will cause the tissue around the bite to become necrotic if not treated.

Also, nothing phases ya after you've been exposed to one of these guys (Goliath bird-eating tarantulas!).

>> ^westy:
The males die from having to interact with the femails [sic]


So, not so much different than humans then.