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H. lividum:
For a defensive spider, they have the most peaceful of all the tarantula breeding encounters I've seen this year. Never have I had a female try to get the male. He inserts, she does the H. lividum "belly scratch" after he's done, and he walks off with (all anthropomorphism intended) a manly strut.
B. boehmei. I feel dirty about this one. He was trying so hard to woo her so to speak. She wanted nothing of it. She tried to grab him so I intervened. Instead of running, he saw the few moments I was holding her back as an opportunity to do what he came there to do. So I had a ruler blocking her fangs and he was under there doing what male spiders do in that situation. I couldn't let her go for fear that she would munch him. I was an accomplice to inappropriate spider behavior! Sadly, with all the confusion (on my part....he knew what to do and she seemed to know she didn't want him there) I wasn't able to get pics of the precarious situation. They look so peaceful here......
For a defensive spider, they have the most peaceful of all the tarantula breeding encounters I've seen this year. Never have I had a female try to get the male. He inserts, she does the H. lividum "belly scratch" after he's done, and he walks off with (all anthropomorphism intended) a manly strut.
B. boehmei. I feel dirty about this one. He was trying so hard to woo her so to speak. She wanted nothing of it. She tried to grab him so I intervened. Instead of running, he saw the few moments I was holding her back as an opportunity to do what he came there to do. So I had a ruler blocking her fangs and he was under there doing what male spiders do in that situation. I couldn't let her go for fear that she would munch him. I was an accomplice to inappropriate spider behavior! Sadly, with all the confusion (on my part....he knew what to do and she seemed to know she didn't want him there) I wasn't able to get pics of the precarious situation. They look so peaceful here......
