My balfouri are a bunch of weirdos.

Left cat looks like they are having a full-blown existential crisis.

It's a beautiful day outside, all the spiders, tortoises, snakes and cats are fed, I have enough iron in my oft-anemic blood to create about 12 or 13 hefty hemoglobins and I'm waiting for my grandson to come over and work on his coding project.

Concentrating on the good atm.

Also, if anyone in the midwest US has a mature male, I'd love to introduce them! She has already created an egg sac in the past just from sitting in the enclosure next to a mature male psalmopoeus cambridgei. She carried that empty egg sac for months before giving up on it. She'll be a great mom!

Imma try it!

A very fuzzy bronze and burnt orange tarantujla sitting on some webbing and moss with her legs pulled up far over her carapace. She is in a defensive position because she has detected the movement of my camera and isn't sure what it is.

This is a freshly molted psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus. She is smooshed down to about half her normal size because I am taking a photo. I am taking a photo because she is never out and had to strike while the iron was hot.

She eventually walked off and then I gave her a hornworm.

#tarantula

I have all of the tools to make this and a great desire to do so. What I do not have is the ability to flibber that pan around without showering my kitchen and myself with rice and eggs.

Yeah what I said was an insult to roaches

Grass spiders are so freaking smart and crazy skittish.

I'm pretty sure he's a fake human, like that roach in a people suit in MIB.

A large tarantula with a black abdomen, a black and pink striped carapace, fuzzy legs with blue green femurs and light gray fuzzy tibia. The spider is facing to the right and is resting in a relatively comfortable position.

Phormictopus sp. south hispaniola, adult female. Her carapace has highlights of pink and maroon and her femurs show off blue green, depending on the angle of the light. In this photo I captured just a hint of both.

Hit dogs holler and all that.

Oh this is stunning! I love the species and I know how hard it is to photograph these!

That's a pretty shot!

The back end of a black and red tarantula. The oval shaped abdomen ends with four spinnerettes, two large pointing upward and two small pointing downward. The spinnerettes have silk coming off of them. The anus is seen between the top two spinnerets.

Spider booty. Bumba horrida juvenile male. #tarantula #spider

I truly believed I'd never love a video more than First Class Meat (Chicken 65), but this has done it!

I really hope you feel better soon! I'm dealing with doctors today too and it's maddening.

Her last partner was a millipede.

If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.

I have chronic anemia so I take iron supplements.

Went to doc, saying, hey, symptoms are worse despite taking supplements.

Doc orders tests.

Tests comes back. I'm anemic as heck. Duh.

Doc calls and says I should take iron supplements.

Watch this without sound. It's so clear he's a giant lying clown.

It's crazy sometimes to look at them next to a molt. It's like "How did you fit in there???"

Just a little leggy with your meds!

I am always blown away watching the speed at which my two gen Z kids fill out forms, apply for jobs and do whatever else on their phones. My millennial child needs a laptop just like me.

I have been doing my own taxes since 1986. I filed this year on April 13th, two whole days before deadline. I believe this is now my personal record for the earliest filing!

We're on day something-something-2-months-later and Ms. Brown recluse is LORGE and more than ready to get released into the shed. #loxosceles #spider

A aqua green and brown striped insect standing on a leaf.

A snazzy little black wall with orange and yellow markings. It is standing on a leaf.

A beetle with a bright red head, pronotum, and elytra, with black color on the back half of the elytra. It is standing on a leaf.

A weevil with a pink head and legs and pale aqua green body. It is standing on a rock.

Some fun bugs we found around the lodge yesterday.
Leafhopper, Long-waisted Honey Wasp, Leaf Beetle, and everyone's favorite, the Magic Sparkle Weevil.

I can get this one to sit still if I give her a hornworm

Yesterday I managed to get a close-up of that horn while she was eating. I love how the setae (hairs) on it has the same striping as the rest of the carapace. Ceratogyrus marshalli #tarantula #spider

Oh man! I am like that with pokies. They do tend to skew mail but I have ridiculously bad luck with that entire genus.