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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Denny Dee" data-source="post: 40508" data-attributes="member: 1393">That's why I try really hard to not get bitten!  <img src="http://www.tarantulaforum.com/images/tarantulasmiley.jpg"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":T:" title="Tarantula Smiley    :T:" data-shortname=":T:" />.   Seriously, these spiders are not for everyone.  I am fascinated with venomous creatures. Always have been.  But I am also very aware of the dangers.  All of my enclosures are double locked,  I wear heavy gloves when I need to do maintenance as well.   Most true spiders, like the recluses and the widows, have very small fangs and cannot pierce even jeans.  They suffer from the same bad rap as T's due to a lack of education and our own instinctive fears.   Now my scorpions, that is another matter indeed!  Glad to see you giving the dried insect collection a go.  I studied entomology back in school.  Make sure you use a form of embalming fluid on the larger insects.  Bummer you can't "pin" dead spiders.  Probably should have stayed with it as now I am making up for lots of lost time.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>