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As I4nsky has said - use the WSC, and use the browser search function to find what you're looking for. World Spider Catalog- Theraphosidae

Not a podcast, but you can buy tarantula documentaries at Love Tarantulas (£2 each for digital downloads), and they are full of the history of the tarantulas being found and described and show a lot of in-situ footage. Couple good Youtube pages about tarantulas in the wild as well...

Andre Leetz did some experimentation on this before. He did present a talk about it at the BTS lectures weekend - but not sure if it's published online anywhere?

I don't think any of the papers on WSC are pay-walled, you just need to register with an email address. I've not keep any Crassicrus in captivity, but I have found them living in the same habitat as T. vagans/ sabulosum in Guatemala, so their care requirements should be similarly simple.

There are a least a couple of different Avicularia species there (check out the tops of the chain link fencing around the exit of P. Maldonado airport ;) ) As well as them and the Pamphobeteus you might also find Megaphobema, Acanthoscurria, Cyriocosmus and a few others. Also Phoneutria. It...

Could be premoult? I think they can stay like this for a while before they eventually moult

I have also had this happen - with a P. marginemaculata and one of her offspring.

The babies look the same as the adults once they've left her back. So I won't be able to comment on age. But I've had them reproduce within a year of being born! So even if they're not yet adult - they will be soon ;)

I keep the substrate a little moist, and without much ventilation so I don't have to add water often. Keeping them with isopods is good as they will be a good food source. Chuck in plenty of moss and leaf litter so the isopods have lots of cover and can reproduce without being wiped out.

Haven't got one of these enclosures set up right now, so you'll have to use your imagination to fill in the substrate and water dish. It's pretty simple, but effective. Dimesions are 24 x 16 x 10 inches, and there wasn't a huge amount of ventilation, only a few holes in the lid at the top and...

Don't think I did too much to season the females, maybe kept them a little drier during mating and a little more humid when I expected eggs.

The enclosures were just plastic under-bed storage containers turned on their ends (I'll see if I have photo somewhere). Breeding was usually very peaceful - as long as the female accepted the introduction of the male (and didn't try to chase him off) they lived together for months. I would find...

I've found them quite easy to keep and breed. I've kept them in large containers with the back/ sides/ roof covered with cork tiles or styrofoam tiles and a large piece of curved bark inside. I tried to keep the substrate a little moist, but always kept a water dish available. I sprayed water...

Really easy to keep! I've kept them in a variety of containers before, now I mostly keep them communally in this old sweet jar. Filled up to about 1/3 with substrate, partly buried wood and cork pieces & leaf litter on top. Seeded with dwarf white woodlice and springtails, which makes up a lot...

https://www.youtube.com/c/lovetarantulas/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/birdspidersCH/videos

Here's a photo of an adult carrying eggs, to show how big they are

No :( My last pair died last year, just after the female spilled some freshly extruded eggs when I moved her tub (couldn't see her so I didn't know until I moved it)

Didn't see any of the cave dwellers eat. Mostly saw them hanging around on the walls or ceilings - even quite low to the ground, but never on the ground.

I keep Charinus in small containers with substrate and leaf litter - they mostly hang out on the undersides of the leaves. All the Phrynus, Paraphrynus, Heterophrynus I've seen in situ were all arboreal, same with some medium and large cave dwelling species I've seen in Malaysia and Borneo