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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 128914" data-attributes="member: 27677">I've been wanting something like those gloves for collecting scorpions, a bit pricey for me , and I'm sure postage would be steep, but the adverts give me search terms which is half the battle with online shopping, thanks for the link. As for handling, I see plenty of videos where people are handling Australian Tarantulas, one guy freaks me out, there's gotta be a "I got tagged" video very soon! On the whole though, people are letting calm spiders walk on them, it's not handling like grabbing a lizard out of a tank and then restraining it when it struggles to escape, it's more just becoming substrate for the tarantula to walk on. I think you'd see some sort of clues that the spider is starting to get stressed before it became aggressive enough to actually bite. My wife "handles" spiders around the house, mostly huntsmans and it seems that the Tarantulas act very much the same, a calm spider walking on someone with no signs of aggression. I have seen some Tarantulas start to get agitated when being just swapped from hand to hand without being allowed to go anywhere, from that point in the video I'm thinking the guy/girl is an idiot! The best ones I see are where a spider is "tested" to see if it is in a calm mood suitable for handling, allowed not forced to walk onto a hand then transferred to a mattress and allowed to roam but hands are put flat in front of it to be walked on. I just finished reading a paper on tarantula senses which indicates that they don't have "smell", but they do "taste" objects, I would be worried that I might seem worth tasting!</blockquote>

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