Aphonopelma seemanni - Wild Tarantula Documentary

Aphonopelma seemanni - the Striped Knee Zebra Tarantula from Costa Rica is one of the most kept pet tarantulas around the globe. This video shows the lifestyle A. seemanni a tarantula species from Central America in various places around Costa Rica including some video material of alive specimens. A truly unique species of tarantulas and with its black and white striped coloration certainly one of the most beautiful ones out there!
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[@kv2315]

a very pretty spider!!! 🤩

[@jdcass638]

This looks like so much fun. :-) I'm happy to see that you and your crew are very respectful to not only the tarantulas, but their habitat as well. Can't wait to see more.

[@lukesmithson1347]

Great video....my seemani is getting an enclosure upgrade now that I've seen their actual burrows and environment. Thank you for showing this.

[@birdspiders]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rkhnd51]

Woo Hoo! Beautiful! It's on my wish list.

[@TPhilth]

"The bad thing is , now we can not drink as much beer as we wanted too. Because we have to drive back here" The struggle is real, and I've been there while traveling lol.

[@birdspiders]

why I didnt see this comment earlier🤣

[@mosca9tails]

Reading vs watching this kind of information on tarantulas really makes a difference cause it piques your interest more than the former. Your videos really helps me in simulating my tarantulas natural habitat and applying it in their enclosures Thanks man, big help

[@kaigurenge4367]

Show more vids bro! I'm a subscriber for about month and I watch all your vids.

[@ItsJadine]

Such a beauty! Must have been amazing to see Tarantulas in their own habitat 🤩

[@sherylbutler9999]

Beautiful specimen! Thanks for sharing!

[@austria-hungary7680]

All around me are familiar seemannis, Worn out seemannis Wornn out Seemannis, Bright and- IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING?!! OH MY GOD IM SOO SICK

[@klaskristian1]

Yes. I use both leaflitters, roots, bark ans soil from my garden in my enclosures. I have done it for 15 years. I have great clay based soil that is great mixed with peat. Many people think it is dangerous to use things that you collect. But it is totally safe. I really dislike this coco fibre people are using. Soil with clay is great in both dry terrariums for example a Pterinochilus, and for a moist terrarium for a T blondi or an Hapliprlma. Usally i mix 50/50 claysoil and peat, but in some terrarium i use pure claysoil. Much easier for the tarantula to dig burrows in claysoil than coco fibre. Another mistake i see new beginners do is not packing down the substrate. As you say, ground where tarantulas lives is often rock hard, and beginners seems to thunk they can not dig burrows in rock hard soil, but it is the other way around, if tge substrate is loose, the tarantula often dont dig burrows and search for another spot with harder soil

[@comicstripgamer1591]

I've not owned the species yet. Its definitely on my radar. Ty

[@markgianorlanda3731]

schizo pelma tv sent me here❤ watching at Philippines

[@birdspiders]

awesome!

[@vermonlloren596]

same

[@KyleRyznarMMA]

What a gorgeous specimen! Mine moulted a few weeks ago and I just rehoused it very smoothly. Side note... my A. seemanni is blue under the light. The femurs give off a blue similar to a C. versi sling while the carapace is similar to that of E. truculentus. I have read about there being regional sp. of A. seemanni, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, but I can’t seem to find anything more than opinions.

[@zeshawngould5147]

All of mine are like that too

[@zeshawngould5147]

One even is purple ish

[@TheyfoundRickGrimes]

Shes beautiful and looked really healthy! - id love to see one in the wild one day, great vid!! 👏👏👏

[@campbells0ups]

my a. seemani drinks water almost every day, i agree they should not be kept totally dry.

[@retrojunkie7096]

Häsch guet gmacht. Super Kanal. Sehr interessanti und lehrrichi Videos über Vogelspinne. Hopp Schwiiz🇨🇭

[@MNEMS-wv5co]

I want more videos 😭😭

[@jdssurf]

lmao when you snapped your fingers and it got dark i thought that damn sign was an alien lol

[@Spiderdan-59]

Ive got one in my T collection ❤

[@renardiyad4758]

caralho xD

[@tarantulacollective]

That is so awesome! Gorgeous specimen you found there!

[@birdspiders]

cheers Richard 💪

[@majesty1110]

Brilliant video!

[@deniseds1555]

Wow she is so beautiful 😍

[@michaellohn4262]

The most beautifully skeleton spider👍😎❤️ She also got orange spinerets, nice

[@birdspiders]

super nice indeed!

[@feelmebruhgood1542]

Because of schizo-phelma tv i discovered and subscribed to this channel. Hope this channel get big someday. I like this kind of contents. It's relaxing

[@birdspiders]

cheers mate!

[@Tarantupedia]

Nicely done! Great video well done

[@birdspiders]

much appreciated! thank you

[@christianjancorda6645]

try chromatopelma cyaneopubescens no one filmed that yet

[@keanneband]

i love watching your videos birdspidersch

[@birdspiders]

thank you Keanne!

[@dirkswildworld]

Again a very nice video! Thumbs up of course.

[@julsarlante1786]

Can I have that tarantula plssss ☺️☺️😞😞

[@birdspiders]

nooo it stayed in Costa Rica :)

[@rhaynjandumon9288]

I hope u wil go 2 philippines and find some tarantula😆🙈🙄

[@birdspiders]

I hope so too!

[@exoaddicts4980]

Thank you for the video and informations about that, keep it up i support you 👍

[@HonoluluTita]

You ought to thank the tarantula by giving it a meal of something.

[@birdspiders]

sometimes we do, this female got a lot of water to drink in this dry period! We don't want to interfere to much with the wild nature, but when there is a grasshopper around, she will get it :)

[@tribex11]

Care sheets for this species usually have humidity at 65-80 which seems too high now I'm looking at this? 🤔

[@birdspiders]

depending on the season, it's not all year the same. We visited in the dry season, so less vegetation and rain

[@caranguejeira]

07:36 "Ai, carai!" Are you brazillian? hahahha

[@birdspiders]

haha my friend in the video lives in Mexico and they have the same saying 🤣 just adapted a little🤣

[@marccantiller1825]

i really like your content sir keep going more power

[@chandaphillips1337]

Maybe you should bring them some food??

[@birdspiders]

ideally one should not interfere with wild animals, feeding even worse. If we find a locust or insect, we give it to the spider though

[@chandaphillips1337]

@@birdspiders lol that’s exactly what I do. I feed the little wolf spiders outside. It’s kept the same generation around for the last five years and it’s helped dramatically with the brown recluse problem we had when we first moved in this house we’re in now. I love my little spiders. Even bring some in for the winter. I bring them out in the spring to my garden. They’re my little buddies. I’d call them tame before I would wild tbh

[@jodanasykes9527]

Beautiful pictures

[@jasfermacalanda8964]

buy

[@birdspiders]

nope

[@reydebelen6583]

Its look like grammostola pulchripes

[@justinellis8864]

Great video! I'm fascinated why they would choose to burrow so close to a road! In fact, so many species in your videos seem to do this. Perhaps it's because building a road sometimes makes an embankment on one or both sides of the road afterwards? Which some T species prefer for catching prey or perhaps the soil / substrate is less compact (having been dug up and moved either side of the road) so T's easier to build burrows in? Or perhaps they chose embankments near roads as that provides them with a substrate that's more malleable and they can also can also chose a northerly position (if they're in the northern hemisphere) for their burrow entrance, so that they get some shade from the sun during the day and then they won't overheat with the sun streaming directly into their burrows? Also, the Spidershop on-line store suggests that Nicarguan Seemani specimens are more black with white stripes, Costa Rican specimens are more chocolate brown with white stripes and Guatemalan are more blue with white stripes? As you are my oracle on all things tarantula, I'd love to know your opinion my friend. Your videos are, truly, in an inspiration to me and have enticed me back into the hobby after 29 years since my Grammostola Rosea. I've bought 35 slings in the last three weeks. All thanks to you. Hope to meet you one day, but for now. thanks so much for your brilliant videos! JustinUK

[@TuberoseKisser]

I'm taking a wild guess here with the road burrows, but I'm guessing that since the road is so busy, potential predators are less likely to be in that area.

[@nicyvilbaco1590]

Men your so amazing!!thank you for making this video❤️❤️❤️and take care

[@birdspiders]

Thank you too!

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

My first tarantula was an A. seemanii. Beautiful and very skittish. She lasted nearly ten years.

[@birdspiders]

they are very long-lived indeed

[@wizziewife4507]

Love you guys and ty for all of your hard work 👍🏻😀👏🏻

[@birdspiders]

always welcome👍

[@retrojunkie7096]

Go to Italy and make a video about the Lycosa tarantula, the original tarantula. Would be interesting!

[@birdspiders]

gueti idee 👌 wenn d grenze wieder offe sind chani das sicher mal mache 😊

[@retrojunkie7096]

birdspidersCH wär cool!👍Mach wiiter so, din Kanal isch sehr lehrriich und für Vogelspinne Liebhaber TOP!😃

[@birdspiders]

merci! schriebmer doch mal e nachricht, immer super mit lüüt us de umgebig zconnecte👌