Thanks for the comments everyone. Pugsly, I love the piccie of the wolf spider.
Raising spiderlings atm, last year's hatchies, but I'm not letting them go as yet as I want to make sure they are very well established first.
All spiders are venomous...they all have venom. The bird eating spiders are not known to be dangerous to people, but there could be someone somewhere that has some kind of reaction to them. The few bites I have had are very painful, and made me nauseous and feeling 'out of it'. Some people vomit for a couple of days, but there hasn't really been enough people bitten to know too much about the effects of the venom. That's why I say as a pet, they are not to be handled. Yes, you can handle them without getting bitten, but I don't recommend it as it is also stressful for the spider, and if it falls off you or you flick it off from a height, it will die. The bites I have received were because I wasn't careful enough, and breeding these tends to be a bit hands-on.
Yeah, for some reason Steve Irwin is sh&t scared of them. :lol: