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My little smithi!

This was sold as a "Chilean Dwarf" at an expo. Any further ideas as to scientific name? (5 points if you see my little Euathlus blue saying hi in the background!)

What n0rmal said.

Congrats! It really is a slippery slope...sometimes I wonder if we have partners to keep us from going tarantula crazy! I don't know about everyone else but my MM vagans is a teeny little thing compared to my females. So I'm gonna agree with everyone who said "female." Red Rumps are so...

You may have to wait a while...I've had a ton of slings that looked like this, all different species.

Male or female?

Guessing male

Hilarious! My A. purpurea did it too.."Who's a scary little sling? Yes you are! Yes you are!"

My mom is the person who got me into T's in the first place, my wife puts up with them, and none of my friends will come to my house. Ever. Sad but true.

I thought vagans too, but my other vagans don't have the red hairs on their legs.

Sold without description. Defensive. Thought to be Lasiodora sp.

Sold without description. Fairly defensive. Thought to be Lasiodora sp.

Sold without description. Pretty docile.

This was sold with no description. Fairly defensive. Thought to be Lasiodora sp.

I went to a small (read: people selling garter snakes) reptile expo today with intentions of coming home with a few ornaments for my snake. Came home with 16 moldy, malnourished tarantulas and an empty wallet. I don't mind taking a few spare tarantulas off a snake breeder's hands, but if you...

This is the problem I keep running into! It's all about how to deal with insects and crops. It's really too bad, I feel like educating the public about spiders may really take steps against arachnophobia.

I live in Ithaca, NY which is home to Cornell University. They offer a great Entomology program, with multiple Spider Biology classes (taught by Linda Rayor!). My question is, are there any other colleges out there that offer spider-based classes?