Is it Spring?

[Enn49]

I think my Ts believe so as I've seen so much unusual behaviour over this last week including:-

Pterinochilus murinus, Zera – unusually out and about 5 days in a row
Omothymus schioedtei (formerly Cyriopagopus schioedtei), Tigger – showing himself more over the last few days
Lampropelma sp. Borneo Black, Sable – out and about for the last few days
Neostenotarsus sp Guyana, Arawak – has burrowed to the side of its container where I can now see it
Cyriocosmus bertae, Inca – has started charging around the top of its container, webbing everywhere instead of staying down below. It was so full of itself the other night it fell 3 times although only 0.5”
Tapinauchenius gigas, Cayenne – started webbing, then burrowed and is now webbing again
Psalmopoeus reduncus, Coffee – is frantically webbing where it's not bothered much before

Has anyone else noticed changes in their Ts behavior?

 

[Enn49]

I forgot one

Cyriopagopus sp. Midnight Blue (formerly Haplopelma sp. Midnight Blue), Midnight - has been out and about and even climbed to the top of the container for the first time.

 

[MassExodus]

Not on a large scale like that..interesting observation though. Maybe the weather shifted for ya'll first, across the pond. I know my big Lp is on the very edge of a molt though, she's going to flip over any day now Then she can harden up and fatten up, cause it will be spring and love is in the air..seriously though, has the weather changed significantly there? Maybe you're right, maybe it is them sensing spring coming.

 

[Enn49]

Not on a large scale like that..interesting observation though. Maybe the weather shifted for ya'll first, across the pond. I know my big Lp is on the very edge of a molt though, she's going to flip over any day now Then she can harden up and fatten up, cause it will be spring and love is in the air..seriously though, has the weather changed significantly there? Maybe you're right, maybe it is them sensing spring coming.

The weather has turned colder if anything, it's been a mild wet winter so far fooling the spring bulbs into bloom early but these last few days have been colder.

 

[kormath]

Same here we had warm weather the past week or 2 and now it's cold again, was -4 when i came to work this morning. Only thing that has changed with my Ts is the larger B. albo finally came out of hiding.

 

[Fleas]

All of my bamboo's have been out an about the past month my C Marshall Evan molted in plain view

 

[MassExodus]

I forgot one

Cyriopagopus sp. Midnight Blue (formerly Haplopelma sp. Midnight Blue), Midnight - has been out and about and even climbed to the top of the container for the first time.

Awhile back I rehoused my C lividus and my marshalli into a few inches of sub with a hide, because I never saw them. So, yesterday I looked for the last time at the somehow pathetic looking little web house my lividus had made, gave in to the guilt and gave her some more sub and a pre made burrow with a cork tube entrance. She started building another web house around the water dish and didn't even look to find the burrow. So I opened the enclosure and tried to gently coax her toward it. I have to say, this is the fastest terrestrial tarantula in my collection. She accelerates into warp speed from a standstill. I would prod, and suddenly she's at the rear wall..another prod, and she's at the front, hanging off the top lip..I cupped her, and tried to prod her out directly in front of the burrow...and she was suddenly in the rear corner of the enclosure and the catch cup was flying and I was giving an incoherent, high pitched screech..lol, j/k, but she never did go in the damned hole. Is your midnight blue like that? I'm naming my lividus Velocity. It has a nice ring to it.

 

[Enn49]

@MassExodus I never start burrows for them because they never seem to use them preferring to start their own. The midnight blue began by digging a hole under the water bowl completely filling it with substrate. It has now incorporated the bowl into its hide and has 2 openings, one into the bowl and the other at the top of the mound it has built. I had to give it a new water bowl

 

[TabithasMom]

Interesting you should post this, as I came home tonight to a sort of T welcoming party. Nearly all of them were out of their hides, even some of the real recluses. Of course, the lividum pouted in her lair, the Pumpkin Patch and OBT are suspect to being in the throes of a molt (considering they've completely sealed up the opening without a prayer of peeking inside), and the darlingi was tucked in tight. The rest of them were out and proud...until they knew they were spotted, of course.

 

[Scoolman]

They are highly sensitive to barometric pressure changes. They know the weather is changing before the weatherman does. Their behavior is going to be in accordance to the changes and they will being to makej preparations.

 

[Enn49]

They are highly sensitive to barometric pressure changes. They know the weather is changing before the weatherman does. Their behavior is going to be in accordance to the changes and they will being to makej preparations.

That makes sense as the pressure here has risen over the last week. One of the great things about keeping Ts - you learn something new almost every day