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<blockquote data-quote="MassExodus" data-source="post: 135905" data-attributes="member: 4086"><p>The truth is most keepers just try to minimize risk to their spiders. I work at a hospital that has a pest control company spray every month. Yet I have found three female A anax there and brought them home, and they're doing fine. I see healthy looking males all the time. I mean if everything was so dangerous, how is it there's tarantulas everywhere here? How do they survive all these dangers? You have to take the info you get from hobbyists (like me<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) with a grain of salt. Our own fears and opinions color everything we do. You could probably walk out to your front yard, dig up some dirt, and never have any issues at all. For all we know, a few days of rain might be all it takes to wash away, dilute or destroy pesticides that were sprayed recently. You just never know. There in lies the problem. I plan on going after some more local species soon, and if I see an A moderatum sitting on a barrel of toxic waste, I'm grabbing that little bastard. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MassExodus, post: 135905, member: 4086"] The truth is most keepers just try to minimize risk to their spiders. I work at a hospital that has a pest control company spray every month. Yet I have found three female A anax there and brought them home, and they're doing fine. I see healthy looking males all the time. I mean if everything was so dangerous, how is it there's tarantulas everywhere here? How do they survive all these dangers? You have to take the info you get from hobbyists (like me:) ) with a grain of salt. Our own fears and opinions color everything we do. You could probably walk out to your front yard, dig up some dirt, and never have any issues at all. For all we know, a few days of rain might be all it takes to wash away, dilute or destroy pesticides that were sprayed recently. You just never know. There in lies the problem. I plan on going after some more local species soon, and if I see an A moderatum sitting on a barrel of toxic waste, I'm grabbing that little bastard. :) [/QUOTE]
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