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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndrewClayton" data-source="post: 243161" data-attributes="member: 28745">Honestly, just leave it. The fact it has went ahead and started to make a home basically confirms it's not a mature male (it obviously could still be male just not mature yet) Going back and looking at the pics you did upload though I'm swaying now to what [USER=49683]@Eighth Eye Blind[/USER] said. Are we absolutely positive it is a Tarantula. I think that's where we need to start here. I never knew of any the species they spoke about but upon researching them it's made me unsure. My 1st thoughts with location was obviously an Aphonopelma species. Males of some species can be incredibly small compared to the female, sometimes the female can be up to 5x the size of the mature male with certain species. AI is a fantastic tool, but it's just that, a tool, you still have to do the actual research. It gets stuff wrong all the time especially with images, as can be seen with the 6 finger humans it creates. So without digging it up, can you compare it's leg span from a photo or memory to some object we will all know the size of, it's obviously not going to be an exact leg span measurement but it gives an idea of the rough size it could be. In short, if it is indeed a Tarantula and not a mature male or even male there is absolutely no point in digging it out. It's made it's home and you are as well just keeping it as you do seem to care for the spider. We do however have to get some ID on it though, purely for care purposes. If it has made a burrow and you can see an entrance, try using a long blade of grass or something similar to rub around the entrance to see in you can entice it out the burrow for some more pics, also see if you're camera has a macro mode, it lets you get close up photos, you have to be close to the spider though so if you're not comfortable doing that just get normal photos, we don't want you accidentally dropping a phone on it. Keep us updated.</blockquote>

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