All insects can be divided into one of two distinct groups: those that, when presented with a sideways cup, say "Fuck yes, free hiding spot", and those that instead say "Fuck that, I'm wise to your game."
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Kevin CristI make the devil hit his kneesand say the 'our father'Registered Userregular
Joro spiders are driving me insane right now, at last count there are 15 attached to my house. They appeared in the last week, and I hate them.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Guess who just came into their room and found an escaped tarantula on their wall.
And for maximum fun it is one of my balfouri communal. Apparently the lid of their tank didn't latch properly after the last time I fed them. I'm not even 100% sure how many are supposed to be in there these days, so even though I've now recaptured that escapee I have no way of knowing if there are any more lose in here.
Guess who just came into their room and found an escaped tarantula on their wall.
And for maximum fun it is one of my balfouri communal. Apparently the lid of their tank didn't latch properly after the last time I fed them. I'm not even 100% sure how many are supposed to be in there these days, so even though I've now recaptured that escapee I have no way of knowing if there are any more lose in here.
Oops.
That's a top of the page post for sure.
Thank you for adding a new nightmare to my list.
smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited November 2023
I got four new slings today. Pterinochilus murinus "Mikumi", "Kinsoma", and "Zimbabwe" forms, to get me slightly closer to my completed Pterror Army.
And a Psuedohapalopus sp. "Colombia", which is the smallest tarantula I've ever seen. I made an embarassing noise when I opened up the pot and saw it for the first time.
That little wheel bug has to be newly hatched (well, not newly newly hatched. It has already darkened. But 1st instar).
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Yup, it's extremely wee. I had a bad moment when I looked down and saw this leggy little black thing taking cover in my arm hair, because my first assumption when I see a big red abdomen is that it's currently packed full of my delicious blood.
But then I had a closer look and realized who it was, and I put them back outside to begin their murderous spree. I hope to meet them again when they're a heavy metal band mascot the length of my finger joint.
This is Neapo, she is the tiny snake I got myself for Easter but also because I wanted a snake.
Spoiled because somehow there are people who don't find snakes as cute as I do.
It's been a year and a bit, so I figured I'd show a picture of Neapo that I took tonight while taking a break from painting.
Still spoiled because she's no longer a tiny snake, but she's still adorable to me.
It's been a while since I've shared a picture of Neapo.
She continues to get bigger and consume more mice.
Spoilered for still a snake.
So, late last year Neapo escaped.
I don't know if she figured out a way to force the tank door or lid open, or if I failed to secure it properly. (I'm betting the second). But apparently milk snakes are somewhat known as escape artists.
But, I got a new snake today.
She was labeled as a Mojave Pin Het Clown, for whatever that means to geneticists or breeders.
I'm not planning on becoming either of those, I just thought she had a cool pattern.
This is Neapo, she is the tiny snake I got myself for Easter but also because I wanted a snake.
Spoiled because somehow there are people who don't find snakes as cute as I do.
It's been a year and a bit, so I figured I'd show a picture of Neapo that I took tonight while taking a break from painting.
Still spoiled because she's no longer a tiny snake, but she's still adorable to me.
It's been a while since I've shared a picture of Neapo.
She continues to get bigger and consume more mice.
Spoilered for still a snake.
So, late last year Neapo escaped.
I don't know if she figured out a way to force the tank door or lid open, or if I failed to secure it properly. (I'm betting the second). But apparently milk snakes are somewhat known as escape artists.
But, I got a new snake today.
She was labeled as a Mojave Pin Het Clown, for whatever that means to geneticists or breeders.
I'm not planning on becoming either of those, I just thought she had a cool pattern.
I can help here!
Mojave and Pinstripe are two specific dominant traits, so they'll always be visible if they're present (though you may not be able to tell when you get a bunch of genes)
In that snake, the Mojave gives the lighter colors and alien head pattern, where pinstripe gives the solide strip along the spine.
Whereas Clown is regressive, requiring two genes, and your wonderful snake there only has one, so not visual.
If you are curious, morph market has a fun genetic wizard.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I had a very minor escape while feeding my Ts on Saturday. One of my P. murinus slings decided to bolt onto the outside of its container. Cue me frozen in place because I didn't have a catch cup handy and had to move to get one but I didn't want to take my eyes off the spider in case it moved again. Luckily I was just able to convince it to walk back into the pot.
Do you think a snake would survive if it escaped where you are, see317? I know if any of my Ts got away they'd eventually die because it gets too cold here, and if they stayed in the house they'd dehydrate. Although I did see a UK based guy in a spider discord who last year had a T run into a crack in his wall and successfully found and caught it again a couple of months later.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Since the thread has been bumped, here's a crappy pic I got on Saturday of my Theraphosa stirmi who molted last month. Only her 3rd molt since I got her and she must be nearly 4" already. Starting to get the velvety look that she will have as an adult, still got the baby booties on her front feet though. And she has started occasionally venturing out of her burrow and sitting where I can see her, hence the reason for the photo, because previously I basically never saw her.
I had a very minor escape while feeding my Ts on Saturday. One of my P. murinus slings decided to bolt onto the outside of its container. Cue me frozen in place because I didn't have a catch cup handy and had to move to get one but I didn't want to take my eyes off the spider in case it moved again. Luckily I was just able to convince it to walk back into the pot.
Do you think a snake would survive if it escaped where you are, see317? I know if any of my Ts got away they'd eventually die because it gets too cold here, and if they stayed in the house they'd dehydrate. Although I did see a UK based guy in a spider discord who last year had a T run into a crack in his wall and successfully found and caught it again a couple of months later.
I live in Colorado, so I'm within the natural range for milk snakes in general, though Neapo's species is generally more south west/Mexican.
I also live in an old condominium complex, so if she found her way into the walls between units the cold shouldn't be a problem, though at that point tracking her down is.
Food wise, I've caught enough mice in traps here that I know there's a food source, though I always fed frozen/thawed.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I remember reading a post from someone who lived in, I wanna say Texas, definitely one of the warmer bits of the US, who had a T. blondi escape as a juvenile. He gave it up for dead and then like a year later found it in a closet, fully grown.
I had a very minor escape while feeding my Ts on Saturday. One of my P. murinus slings decided to bolt onto the outside of its container. Cue me frozen in place because I didn't have a catch cup handy and had to move to get one but I didn't want to take my eyes off the spider in case it moved again. Luckily I was just able to convince it to walk back into the pot.
Do you think a snake would survive if it escaped where you are, see317? I know if any of my Ts got away they'd eventually die because it gets too cold here, and if they stayed in the house they'd dehydrate. Although I did see a UK based guy in a spider discord who last year had a T run into a crack in his wall and successfully found and caught it again a couple of months later.
I live in Colorado, so I'm within the natural range for milk snakes in general, though Neapo's species is generally more south west/Mexican.
I also live in an old condominium complex, so if she found her way into the walls between units the cold shouldn't be a problem, though at that point tracking her down is.
Food wise, I've caught enough mice in traps here that I know there's a food source, though I always fed frozen/thawed.
Good news!
I took this photo this afternoon.
Neapo showed up on Thursday morning. Still have no idea where she's been, but I'm not looking a gift snek in the mouth here.
Bad news, I had to buy a new tank as her old one has been inherited by Julius.
The old magic of complaining on the internet worked again.
I think snakes can go quite some time without food when it's cold out, since their energy needs reduce so drastically. But that's assuming quite a few things.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
hooray! snek!
wonder what neapo was drinking and eating and such
Milk, obviously. Duh.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Drove to Amarillo to spend time with the family for the fourth.
I passed by a couple of playa lakes on the way and the air over the highway was just thick with dragonflies for a couple of miles. If they'd been grasshoppers, they'd have laminated themselves all over the front of my car.
But despite the fact that I was driving through a heavy cloud of bugs at 80 mph, not a single one of them touched my car. They all saw me coming and looped out of the way just ahead of the slipstream.
Hey tarantula people, what are the chances of a dog getting hurt by urticating spines during an encounter?
depends on species of spode and size of dog, really. Absolutely worth a quick call to your vet. If this is T country, this is a semi-common thing, and they'll have a good answer for you.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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Nova_CI have the needThe need for speedRegistered Userregular
I had a very minor escape while feeding my Ts on Saturday. One of my P. murinus slings decided to bolt onto the outside of its container. Cue me frozen in place because I didn't have a catch cup handy and had to move to get one but I didn't want to take my eyes off the spider in case it moved again. Luckily I was just able to convince it to walk back into the pot.
Do you think a snake would survive if it escaped where you are, see317? I know if any of my Ts got away they'd eventually die because it gets too cold here, and if they stayed in the house they'd dehydrate. Although I did see a UK based guy in a spider discord who last year had a T run into a crack in his wall and successfully found and caught it again a couple of months later.
I live in Colorado, so I'm within the natural range for milk snakes in general, though Neapo's species is generally more south west/Mexican.
I also live in an old condominium complex, so if she found her way into the walls between units the cold shouldn't be a problem, though at that point tracking her down is.
Food wise, I've caught enough mice in traps here that I know there's a food source, though I always fed frozen/thawed.
Good news!
I took this photo this afternoon.
Neapo showed up on Thursday morning. Still have no idea where she's been, but I'm not looking a gift snek in the mouth here.
Bad news, I had to buy a new tank as her old one has been inherited by Julius.
The old magic of complaining on the internet worked again.
I'm so glad Neapo showed up! She's gorgeous.
My corn snake Cerberus escaped a few months ago, but she didn't go far. I was sitting at my computer playing a game when I looked down to find her chilling at my feet. Which was a surprise! It turns out that the little latch for the door (Which I never use because it's too small to be useful to me) on the cover for her tank broke so she was able to just push it open and get out. It's now secured with a lot of packing tape, so, no repeats. I am so lucky that hanging out with me was preferable to hiding in some dark space never to be seen again!
I've officially become a "Snake Guy". Got this beauty from a coach at my gym when one of her friends had to rehome it, and I was the person they thought of. He's a Kenyan Sand Boa, think I'm going to name him Shai.
One of those fuck off big, invasive Joro spiders showed up in the neighbors tree.
I don't know how I feel about it. Supposedly, based on the article I read about them, they're actually pretty environmentally neutral? In that, they are invasive but they aren't actually fucking anything up in the places in which they're invading. So, they aren't predating on local spiders or overtly competitive for food.
But they are also Too Big. The web it made was a fucking giant, crackhead ass lookin mess that was catching leaves and twigs and shit. If they start building in the yard I'm gonna get a BB gun and start sniping them. I can't be walking through that shit at 5 am, I already have to deal with the garden spiders trying to build a web to my car door every morning. That thing looks like it could catch a fucking bird or also me.
One of those fuck off big, invasive Joro spiders showed up in the neighbors tree.
I don't know how I feel about it. Supposedly, based on the article I read about them, they're actually pretty environmentally neutral? In that, they are invasive but they aren't actually fucking anything up in the places in which they're invading. So, they aren't predating on local spiders or overtly competitive for food.
But they are also Too Big. The web it made was a fucking giant, crackhead ass lookin mess that was catching leaves and twigs and shit. If they start building in the yard I'm gonna get a BB gun and start sniping them. I can't be walking through that shit at 5 am, I already have to deal with the garden spiders trying to build a web to my car door every morning. That thing looks like it could catch a fucking bird or also me.
At least they're brightly colored nightmare monsters.
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And for maximum fun it is one of my balfouri communal. Apparently the lid of their tank didn't latch properly after the last time I fed them. I'm not even 100% sure how many are supposed to be in there these days, so even though I've now recaptured that escapee I have no way of knowing if there are any more lose in here.
Oops.
That's a top of the page post for sure.
Thank you for adding a new nightmare to my list.
And a Psuedohapalopus sp. "Colombia", which is the smallest tarantula I've ever seen. I made an embarassing noise when I opened up the pot and saw it for the first time.
I have named it Speck.
Great lil spode
Sorry, little buddy. I'm not psyched about lawnmowing season either, but I need my yard boots back.
Take care when you're doing yard work, everyone. There are assassins everywhere.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
But then I had a closer look and realized who it was, and I put them back outside to begin their murderous spree. I hope to meet them again when they're a heavy metal band mascot the length of my finger joint.
And now to the cooking thread!
He's so cute :>
So, late last year Neapo escaped.
I don't know if she figured out a way to force the tank door or lid open, or if I failed to secure it properly. (I'm betting the second). But apparently milk snakes are somewhat known as escape artists.
But, I got a new snake today.
She was labeled as a Mojave Pin Het Clown, for whatever that means to geneticists or breeders.
I'm not planning on becoming either of those, I just thought she had a cool pattern.
I can help here!
Mojave and Pinstripe are two specific dominant traits, so they'll always be visible if they're present (though you may not be able to tell when you get a bunch of genes)
In that snake, the Mojave gives the lighter colors and alien head pattern, where pinstripe gives the solide strip along the spine.
Whereas Clown is regressive, requiring two genes, and your wonderful snake there only has one, so not visual.
If you are curious, morph market has a fun genetic wizard.
Do you think a snake would survive if it escaped where you are, see317? I know if any of my Ts got away they'd eventually die because it gets too cold here, and if they stayed in the house they'd dehydrate. Although I did see a UK based guy in a spider discord who last year had a T run into a crack in his wall and successfully found and caught it again a couple of months later.
I live in Colorado, so I'm within the natural range for milk snakes in general, though Neapo's species is generally more south west/Mexican.
I also live in an old condominium complex, so if she found her way into the walls between units the cold shouldn't be a problem, though at that point tracking her down is.
Food wise, I've caught enough mice in traps here that I know there's a food source, though I always fed frozen/thawed.
Good news!
I took this photo this afternoon.
Neapo showed up on Thursday morning. Still have no idea where she's been, but I'm not looking a gift snek in the mouth here.
Bad news, I had to buy a new tank as her old one has been inherited by Julius.
The old magic of complaining on the internet worked again.
wonder what neapo was drinking and eating and such
Milk, obviously. Duh.
I passed by a couple of playa lakes on the way and the air over the highway was just thick with dragonflies for a couple of miles. If they'd been grasshoppers, they'd have laminated themselves all over the front of my car.
But despite the fact that I was driving through a heavy cloud of bugs at 80 mph, not a single one of them touched my car. They all saw me coming and looped out of the way just ahead of the slipstream.
Dragonflies, man. They're better than we are.
depends on species of spode and size of dog, really. Absolutely worth a quick call to your vet. If this is T country, this is a semi-common thing, and they'll have a good answer for you.
I'm so glad Neapo showed up! She's gorgeous.
My corn snake Cerberus escaped a few months ago, but she didn't go far. I was sitting at my computer playing a game when I looked down to find her chilling at my feet. Which was a surprise! It turns out that the little latch for the door (Which I never use because it's too small to be useful to me) on the cover for her tank broke so she was able to just push it open and get out. It's now secured with a lot of packing tape, so, no repeats. I am so lucky that hanging out with me was preferable to hiding in some dark space never to be seen again!
Love those derpy eyes.
I don't know how I feel about it. Supposedly, based on the article I read about them, they're actually pretty environmentally neutral? In that, they are invasive but they aren't actually fucking anything up in the places in which they're invading. So, they aren't predating on local spiders or overtly competitive for food.
But they are also Too Big. The web it made was a fucking giant, crackhead ass lookin mess that was catching leaves and twigs and shit. If they start building in the yard I'm gonna get a BB gun and start sniping them. I can't be walking through that shit at 5 am, I already have to deal with the garden spiders trying to build a web to my car door every morning. That thing looks like it could catch a fucking bird or also me.
I will forge an alliance with the Big Spiders.
At least they're brightly colored nightmare monsters.
Spoilered for brightly colored nightmare monster:
I'm sure that's inspired at least 3 pokemon.