#tarantula
Spidering along.
This is Fennec. She’s new, she’s fast, and she’s SPICY!!!
It’s “Save a Spider Day”. I made a picture.
My baby tarantula has grown :,)
A little art trade with my friend medievaan, she asked me to draw one of her oc if he was in Tale Of Bugs
So here is Oswald (her oc), a tarantula working with Thalis the earwig (my oc).
commissions.
Oc inspired in that fake winged tarantula photo
So we had a super exciting time on my daily barn livestream yesterday when this big ol’ leg friend wandered into the pasture! I didn’t want him to get squished so I scooped him up and helped him find a better place to be. Stream named him Oreo and I got to info-dump about North American tarantulas to strangers, so all in all a fantastic day!
How The Venom of The King Baboon Spider Could Help Us Better Understand Chronic Pain
Really interesting study on the venom of P. muticus. The image is not P. muticus but looks like a P. murinus. Both are colloquially called baboon spiders. This is why scientific names are so important. This could help with better treating chronic pain in people and animals. This is also a good example of why we need to protect entire habitats and not just the cute animals we want to hug. I do like that the actual paper says the tarantula has an “appealing coloration”.
Some fanart of Humans-B-Gone by @revretch, with quotes lovingly stolen from Homestar RunnerandSpace Ghost Coast to Coast, respectively.
Tapinauchenius polybotes
I’ve not actually seen the entire spider in about 5 months, this is the first time in over a year I’ve actually caught it hunting outside it’s web.