Authored by Tom Williams Yvonne Wooley is a UK Insect Expert and avid invertebrate collector who helps to organise the Insect Fayre in Newark, Nottinghamshire that is taking place on the 8th of May. Yvonne was kind enough to answer a few questions for us on her hobby. RA: How did you get into keeping […]
The Cobalt Blue Tarantula Haplopelma lividum is an average size tarantula measuring a total of 4” to sometimes 5” in total for large females. Being fossorial or ground dwelling we need not be concerned with the height of the enclosure as much as the floor space.
In the course of this conversation we discussed the Brown Recluse species Loxosceles reclusa and their reputation. This brought up a pet peeve of mine. I can throw a stone anywhere in California and hit somebody who knows of someone who has been envenomated by a Brown Recluse Loxosceles reclusa in the state of California.