Psalmopoeus irminia burrowing?

[mcy]

Is this strange? its still a little sling like maybe 1 inch but its burrowing instead of being aboreal like this species is said to be. sorry i know i spelled it wrong lol

 

[Okitasoshi]

Yeah i had one that did that too.

 

[Juraki]

Not strange at all, and it wouldn't be the first arboreal to adopt a terrestrial life as a spiderling. I wouldn't worry at all.

My P.cambridgei and H.maculata both chose to burrow rather than hang out on the sides or on the cork bark. My P.regalis, P.formosa, and P.miranda are all slings and have burrows as well as being on the sides of the vial, I'd say they are arboreal and terrestrial about 50/50 of the time at this age.

 

[mcy]

Thanks! glad to know botar didnt accidently send me the wrong little guys

 

[ErinKelley]

mine too!

Both the irminia spiderlings I have have perfect burrows.

 

[TheNatural]

I guess most arboreals are semi-arboreals during the first phase of their lifes, they usually cover their webs with dirty.

The exeption goes for Avicularia genus that go straight up to the higher areas and rarelly comes down and touch the substrate, their have very clean webs.

 

[Botar]

Yes, they'll burrow. They'll even build burrows as adults... but they web upwards and take substrate with them. Same goes with many arboreals... I've not seen the Avics do it though.

Botar

 

[xgrafcorex]

all of my psalmos do this. well now that i rehoused the pulcher, it found a nice hole in the corkbark (near the ground) to live in. even my 4.5-5" irminia still has a "burrow" which is more just a tube web on ground level covered in substrate.

and i'll have to third the part about avics...i've never seen either of mine make a web that reaches the ground. also, i've almost NEVER seen them touch the ground level of the substrate.

 

[Galadriel]

When we got out sun tiger we gave her a tall house with 3 plastic stir things in it. She used them to build a tipi. Go figure.

 

[spid142]

Yes arboreals can be terrestrial behavior too as well as arboreal. My P. regalis started out terrestrial for a few molts, and now spends most time on her tree and so far only has a little webbing, even tho she's 4 inch.