My daughter's spiders

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No one seems to be talking spiders so I thought I start a thread. My daughter is passionate about spiders and has been keeping tarantulas and other spiders since she was five.

Elizabeth got me completely over my fear of tarantulas. Her current interest is in how tarantula venom can help people. I'm trying to get her to join this forum but she already has a lot packed into her life and at 12 one more thing is too much.

But, she's taught me a lot over the years and is willing to help out with me as liason. If you are wondering if a 12 year old girl can really be much help, run a yahoo or google search on "Elizabeth Mule tarantulas". She really does know her stuff.

[dragoneye]

Thats awesome, it definately gives a different perspective to how people should look at them, I think they look really intresting, but i have to admit, im still kind of iffy about getting one even though every time i see one i want one more and more...

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Elizabeth's other spider interests are in the Nephila clavipes and Argiope aurantia. She noticed I didn't post her tarantula interest in the tarantula section but the overall spider section. Silly me.

Now that we are in Texas, it might be more difficult for her to find Nephila, but there should be Argiope around.

[dragoneye]

really said:

Elizabeth's other spider interests are in the Nephila clavipes and Argiope aurantia. She noticed I didn't post her tarantula interest in the tarantula section but the overall spider section. Silly me.

Now that we are in Texas, it might be more difficult for her to find Nephila, but there should be Argiope around.

yea i was going to say... there are alot of different varieties of spiders out there in TX

have you or her made any good care sheets for the trantulas?

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She had several, especially for some of the orb weavers but when we lost everything in Katrina, she lost those too. She's planning on writing up some new ones this summer but right now she's swamped with school work and science fair prep.