What have you found ..

[Dave Gunter]

.. to be your most agressive spider ?

After reading many posts on here about agressive spiders i got to wondering how other compare to mine.

Without a doubt mine is my Pterinochilus sp. "Usambara orange baboon", you only have to go near the tank and Bang!! it's there in full threat posture, whereas my H. lividum (cobalt blue), C. crawshayi (king baboon) rarely are seen outside thier burrows and when they are they will scuttle off down the hole if disturbed.

[Neil Ashby]

I have to agree with you Dave

My orange baboon is a psycho and gets my heart pumping every time i tend to his tank !

[Johanna Turner]

I have a P, murinus sling (Approx 2cm) and he doesn't give two hoots about what's going on outside his tank! I can even rummage around slightly in the tub he's in to get out food remains and anything looking like it's festering and he doesn't bat an eyelid (Even though they don't have them - maybe that's why!? lol)

I was frightened of him when he arrived but he was understandably jittery after being in the Post the last 24 hours! He jumped at the light when I opened the lid but he's settled in nicely since.

I get the feeling this may be the calm before the storm though!

Trying to think but out of my collection of 29 (At present - mostly slings) I haven't any that have offered a threat posture even when moved around with forceps etc.

Lucky so far!

[Dave Gunter]

I have to agree with you Dave

My orange baboon is a psycho and gets my heart pumping every time i tend to his tank !

If you want to get your heart pumping try sitting in the chair in the bug room and watching as this little demon runs under the door into the bedroom hallway !!!!!!!!!

Only had one escapee so far (touch wood) but it just had to be the orange baboon - luckily recaught in the bathroom.

[Marko Sajovic]

Hi. I have totlly different experience with my murinus. Most of the time she is hidden inside her silk retreat. When outside she is usually slow and rather retreat than strike.
I don't remember when I last saw my crawshayi or H.albostriatum outside.
Then I also have female maculata that is also very skitish. Disturbed P.ornata shows her threat position but rarely strikes.
So who is the winner? The spider that is easily disturbed, and strikes every time even at smallest drop of water is my Cyriopagophus sp. blue. Long legs, big fangs... I wouldn't want to meet her in close.

[Neil Richardson]

Lampropelma sp "Borneo Orange Fringe" is the most evil one i have, throws a threat pose when you open the container.

My P.murinus isn't that bad, prefers to run away when threatened. Only really does a threat pose if she's backed into a corner.

[Robert Farmer]

Out of my 7 I'd say the P Murinus is the one to watch. soooooooo fast! Although saying that, when I was showing my L Parahybana to a friend it managed to run up my arm inside my T shirt... got her out ok, (had t remove said item of clothing, she was clinging on for dear life!) was an interesting experience...

[Glen Feasey]

Robert i would have died!

[Robert Farmer]

Robert i would have died!

I just froze, didn't want to risk squashing her...

[mary walters]

You would have heard me scream in Dunstable lol.

[Simon Batten]

my H.Lividum is actually quite physco, she will turn and run down her burrow then spin around and all you can see is he fangs coming up

[Nicola Dolby]

aggressive spiders

I have only had two spiders go for me, One was a juvenile H maculata who I disturbed whilst trying to find her and re-house her after a moult and she ran up her bark and bit me on the thumbnail, the other was a E vulpinus pregnant female who had only recently got off a plane (I presume it was) from Chile and tried to bite me through her pot. All I can say is that I have Haplopelmas (lividium & schmidti), and two types of Pterinochilus (red and UMV) and 7 Poecilothreia and never a raised fang from any of them. I have only been "attacked" when the one at fault was the one I see in the mirror.