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I have been hunting around my yard for trapdoor spiders for the past 6 months. I have found various weblined burrows in my yard, and dug them
up with no avail. My nephew just happen to find a sling one day while digging. I kept that one about a week and upon rehousing it, accidently killed it. The next one we found on my front porch and was a MM and died a few weeks later. And on the latest hunt, I had came across a hole lined with silk. I dug deeper and deeper for about thirty minutes. I finally found another tunnel and instead of checking it first, I went ahead and excavated it with my knife. I then looked down in the giant hole I had dug to see a 2" trapddor flailing around. I caught it and immediately placed it in an ICU. It lost one of it's legs, one of it's pedipalps and half of the other pedipalp. And for some reason the abdomen was wrinkled and squishy, but it was not leaking fluid anywhere. I kept it in an ICU for three hours with no improvement and it is dead. So all my experiences with trapdoors have been horrible. I want one so bad, one that I can just go out into my backyard and catch. A native species. How awesome is it that you can just go catch yourself a pet that is just like a mini tarantula, yet I have had the worst luck. I hope I will be able to get one some day without it being MM or me killing it
up with no avail. My nephew just happen to find a sling one day while digging. I kept that one about a week and upon rehousing it, accidently killed it. The next one we found on my front porch and was a MM and died a few weeks later. And on the latest hunt, I had came across a hole lined with silk. I dug deeper and deeper for about thirty minutes. I finally found another tunnel and instead of checking it first, I went ahead and excavated it with my knife. I then looked down in the giant hole I had dug to see a 2" trapddor flailing around. I caught it and immediately placed it in an ICU. It lost one of it's legs, one of it's pedipalps and half of the other pedipalp. And for some reason the abdomen was wrinkled and squishy, but it was not leaking fluid anywhere. I kept it in an ICU for three hours with no improvement and it is dead. So all my experiences with trapdoors have been horrible. I want one so bad, one that I can just go out into my backyard and catch. A native species. How awesome is it that you can just go catch yourself a pet that is just like a mini tarantula, yet I have had the worst luck. I hope I will be able to get one some day without it being MM or me killing it