Difficult as I can't see it without opening the door to the hole. As for taking the food out, I'd have to destroy the burrow.
Burrowing T´s usually close up their burrows or hides with a combination of webbing and earth when they are in pre-molt. You cannot say with absolute certainty that this spider is in pre-molt, but it is very likely. In any case the spider do not want to be disturbed and I cannot see any reasons as to why you should attempt to feed a T that is not in a "hunting position".
I never said to look into the Ts burrow or put the cricket into it. I ment put the cricket into the enclosure. If the the T is hungry it will come out to eat, If it doesn't just take out the cricket
Maybe true with Brachys ( I don't work with them much)but I have had tons of Ts That eat while hunkered down in a burrow.
I don´t keep Brachys either, my comment was for burrowing T´s in general. In my experience a T that has "sealed" its entrance is not in the mood for eating and in most cases it will be in pre-molt. With burrowing T´s it is quite easy to see if they are in the mood for eating or not. As I mostly keep terrestrial OWs I don´t want to take unnecessary risks of having to take out live crickets that the T´s don´t want to eat. I do feed T´s that is down in their burrows, but never if the burrow is "sealed" with heavy webbing and dirt. English is not my mother tongue and I don´t understand if you by "hunkered down" simply means a tarantula being down into its burrow or being down into a "sealed off" burrow.
They didn't tell you to put it in the burrow. Just the enclosure
Yep, got that.
