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She has narrowed it down now and says she knows for sure that the ones from where she lived in Arizona (Aphonopelma chalchodes, presumably) can do that. I'm going to be getting one of those soon, so we'll see if that will settle it. Doubt it though! :rolleyes:

Wow those are two great bright sides to this. Haha.

This is good advice for dealing with a lot of other people in my life, so thank you. I guess I wasn't clear though: my grandmother is actually not scared of tarantulas. She likes them. But she hails from the American southwest where tarantula legends abound, and believes some crazy stuff. So I...

That might actually work.

Yeah, with those people I don't bother. I have a few phobias that I know are irrational, and I hate it when people try to talk me out of it. I try not to be aggressive with promoting my arachnid obsession, just as I appreciate others not being aggressive in convincing me that it's...

How can I convince my grandmother that a heavy bodied terrestrial tarantula most definitely cannot jump three vertical feet into the air, short of dropping one from that height and showing her the result????

I have to ask: did you name it Geronimo because of that incident?

That sucks. I'm so sorry. :(

That's too weird, up until "Michigan" I was trying to figure out if I knew you. I did intern in a hospital, but not in Michigan. It was Washington. I was in the IT department.

Hello. This is me in an awkward selfie. Also, me with my dog, Trigger, in the small wilderness near my home where I collect and observe spiders. Maybe I should talk about myself. Uh, I've got brown hair, brown eyes, I'm 5'2", and I prefer to forget my weight. So now you can tell the police what...

Thank you for the information. Like I said, I don't know anything about these, and it's nice to learn. :)

I did some research, and couldn't really find anything: are these similar to spiders in that males don't live long after maturing out? Because if so, that sounds like old age to me. I know many species of spiders will stop eating as mature males, having interest only in mating. And, elderly...

Beautiful! I love this species.

Jumping spiders are very easy to keep! They're also tremendous fun. They're very curious and seem to enjoy watching us humans. Feeding them is very entertaining, because they can execute some pretty impressive take downs, and their little defense postures are adorable. I only have one right now...

Thank you so much.

Thank you. This is a very nice response.

Other than in her water dish, mine also likes to make a wall of substrate in the direction of where most of the light comes from, so I kind of wonder if she thinks she's walling off the mouth of her burrow. I'm really interested to see whether she keeps these behaviours as an adult or not.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that it is indeed a game. And that tarantulas are secretly laughing at their weird hairless food-providers. And hey, at the end of the day, I'm just as happy to keep filling up her water dish whether it provides actual hydration or just something to do while...

I was really proud of my little Bea. Usually, she wastes no time depositing as much dirt as she can carry with her pedipalps into her water dish. I assumed maybe it was too humid in there, so I let the enclosure dry out, then put in a fresh water dish and dripped into it a few drops of water...

Thank you. :)