Recent content by Kevin Levites

For God's sake, don't let it sting you. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://undark.org/2016/05/18/tarantula-hawk-wasp-sting-pain/&ved=2ahUKEwiMj8DAisT_AhV4STABHVxnCVoQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1cG_mjN6cNHyZ569798Svd It hurts like nothing else.

Thank you.

I might consider raising and cultivating them from wild stock.

I looked up the red runner, and it seems that is is already established in Florida. It does say that it now occurs in South Carolina . . . so I'm betting it's in Florida.

As I said, I'm not technologically sophisticated, and couldn't figure out how to get the camera to focus and magnify properly. I am an older person who struggles with using computers.

I'm not sure. I don't know what redrunners are. A species of roach?

No luck. Just back and forth about how I didn't send a photo when the spiderling was too small to get a good picture (I'm older, and I struggle with computers). I was nicely conned, and there doesn't seem like a lot I can do about it.

Thank you.

It's 2 hours. I made first phone call within 2 hrs., and was told to call back in an hour by Vlad. Then I was outside the 2 hr. window.

Thank you both.

Can anyone suggest anything to help with my situation? Do you think the better business bureau might help?

They did want pictures, but the spider is so tiny (smaller than a tick) that I can't get it to focus in my camera.

Hi guys. Have you had problems with Fear Not Tarantulas? I ordered 4, one arrived dead, they are not interested in fixing it because I'm "not cooperating with them." I called on the phone, a guy named Vlad told me to call back in an hour, and then too much time passed because I was outside...

That actually does makes sense. I imagine that a tarantula from, say, South America might be more vulnerable to parasites from Florida for the same reason why Native Americans were vulnerable to European diseases that they hadn't been exposed to. I'll stick to domestic sources of feeder...

I like your thinking. Obesity is a killer . . . whether in people or in domestic animals. I agree that tarantulas can become obese, as they don't have to flee from predators, or store body fat for hibernation while in captivity. Even so, I have--in the past--had a tendency to overfeed...