Tarantula Tliltocatl albopilosum

Was rolling grubs to warm them up and stupidly forgot to wash my hands. So as soon as I pick her up to her towards her cage, she “smelled” the grub on my hand via the chemoreceptors on her pedipalps. I should have know better

Very stiff and painful for about 2 weeks. The blue line crawled halfway up my arm before it finally faded, but still remained stiff.

How it happened: I wasn't active on Arachnoboards when this happened, but a few months ago my very sweet though slightly skittish B. albopilosum mistook my finger for a cricket when I was changing her water dish. No threats, no warning, just grabbed and sank her fangs in.

I held my hand as still as I could, watching her sink the fangs into the flesh all the way to their base, until she decided I wasn't actually food and ran away into her hide. At first I thought it was a dry bite, and applied a bandaid to stop the bleeding, then a few minutes later it started to throb. I think she put a lot of venom into the wet bite, since she was expecting a tasty treat, so seemed a bit worse than the other bite reports I have read, maybe because it was in my fingertip with lots of nerve endings...? Still, nothing some pressure and patience couldn't overcome.

A dull throbbing in my left index finger for less than a day, could feel it throb to about the base of the first joint. After that day it would occasionally hurt a little when I put pressure on the injury, but not much.