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[@tarantulakat]

HERE SHE IS! *limited edition* as usual - www.makeship.com/products/binx-plush

[@cb3391]

Well I can tell you not my fave, but not as aggressive as rumored.

[@jclay452]

Hello! When ordering, what does “add copy of final production design to this plush” mean?

[@tarantulakat]

@@jclay452 it’s just a detailed download of the design for people for personal use if you want to make your own

[@jclay452]

@@tarantulakatThank you for the quick reply. I’m going to order just the plush ❣️ I love your channel!!

[@crafty_j957]

I had set my timer for this one so I could order it right away because otherwise I end up forgetting and then missing out (like what happened with pumpkin 😔). I just want to say that my Maple plush arrived (I think a month or two ago) and I love how fluffy they are. Ended up ordering two so my child could have one too (as a Christmas gift so they're going to have to wait). Thank you for sharing all of your beautiful and amazing critters and for recreating some of them as equally adorable plushies

[@blakefish80]

Jacks Black Widow bite was suprisingly gnarly. Pain for days, he looked like he'd been hit by a truck. He had to really goad the spidey to bite him though. As you say, these beauties really don't want to bite you... I love them so much. So stunningly pretty.

[@tarantulakat]

yeah deff shows they need respect for sure ❤️

[@treystewart544]

@@tarantulakatthat black widow is so beautiful when she’s walking on her web eating the worm so beautiful I love you kat 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@78moonie]

@@treystewart544 heart

[@Thewidowpeak]

If you ever want to branch out to other Latrodectus species let me know.

[@mirandabrown6375]

I used to have paralyzing arachnophobia (the majority of my life) and then I came across your channel and began truly learning and understanding the very things I feared. Long story short I am now the proud momma of a black widow and 13 adorable little jumpers so THANK YOU!!! 🖤🕷️🕸️

[@TheConnonedrum]

After seeing your instagram stories. You should name a spider "Coraline" or "the other mother."

[@dragonbowlsupper]

Hey TK! I adopted my own Black Widow lady a few months ago to bring her inside before a freeze. She laid two huge egg sacs and about 300 babies are currently catching as many flies as they can eat on my porch. Thank you for removing the stigma on these beautiful and easy to keep creatures. And yes, people are always shocked to find out I have one!!

[@tonydeluna8095]

I think Black Widows are adorable creatures. Venomous, but cute

[@PaulStClair-jr9wp]

There is indeed an antivenom but it's very rarely used. It has a very high severe allergic reaction risk, so it's only indicated in extreme cases. Usually we just control pain and muscle spasms until the effects pass. Most of this is theory though, I've only seen one bite in my ER in the last years.

[@grimm_satisfaction1292]

I had a Black Widow when I was in 3rd grade. Her name was Emma and she was my first pet! 🥰 We found her in our back yard, but what's cool is that there's a Black Widow farm literally down the street from where we live, and they would send us food for her. 😊

[@lilvrgs4]

I am terrified of spiders, with that said. Last week there was a black widow in our office and as terrified as I am, I got a cup and plate and got the black widow and took it outside. I feel after watching your videos it's helping with my fear of spiders. I won't be getting a spider as a pet any time soon, but it's helping with my anxiety over them.

[@thoth8784]

Black Widows r sooo cool, the red hourglass is da bomb !!

[@januk7725]

they are very eye catching spiders, i like the coffin enclosure

[@Demolitiondude]

Summer is on full force! Need more cicadas! Miss my summer night white noise.

[@NairaWolfGaming]

I literally just watched a new movie the other day that came out called "Sting" which I was going to recommend to you in a comment somewhere - and this is the perfect place! It's about a little girl who raises a redback spider for a pet, which is the Australian black widow. They did an excellent job on the model of the spider, I think you'd appreciate it! Plus it was just a really fun B grade horror movie. Fantastic and informative video Kat! 😊

[@tarantulakat]

Oooo will check it out. Mr tarantula kat loves b horror movies lol

[@MrHavadollar]

The major issue with black widow bites is that the venom protein is a common systemic toxin that you can have an allergic reaction to even if you aren't allergic to other venoms, like bee stings. If you are allergic to bees, you should be equally wary of bites from black widows. What I like most about them is their behavior. During feeding, they are one of the most fascinating creatures to watch. They are extremely careful with how they approach prey items in their webs. They really don't want to get hurt. They also eat other spiders quite commonly and it's crazy to watch one hunt in a web that belongs to another spider. Their slick bodies don't stick to sticky silk. Pretty handy for when you are on the move through the territories of other spiders.

[@rebeccarilk966]

James Andy Vanover here.. I grew up catching them sense I was 5 years old. Beautiful and shy spiders.

[@helicrashpro]

Cat you are such a treasure. The GOAT of arachnid videos IMHO.

[@lindseymercuria3971]

I missed out on every plushie and I'm too broke to get Binx. Maybe, when I have a bunch of spare coin, I'll find a collection to buy. Your plushies are freaking adorable!

[@amikirsteen9115]

WOOOOOOO KATS POSTEDDDDD❤❤❤❤❤

[@goopybird]

I have a UK house spider and she sounds very similar to what you described! Shes such a lovely spider.

[@DianeCee0]

I'd love more videos like this! Care videos are so educational.

[@JacksWorldofWildlife]

LOVE THE PLUSH! HOW CUTE!

[@harrytrevenen2310]

Kat, have you ever considered keeping a Diving Bell Spider, they're really neat.

[@notaperson9831]

I imagine they’d be pretty hard to keep properly since they hunt in water. They eat small fish, no?

[@harrytrevenen2310]

@@notaperson9831 they also eat nymphs, mosquito larvae, small worms and even tadpoles, etc.

[@savalanche7070]

Yay Binx!! I'm soo excited. Thanks for the educational video, and for releasing another adorable plushieeee ^___^

[@Mercedes_may]

You are making me like these🖤

[@ChantalsCritters]

Great video

[@richardbriansmith8562]

Awesome Video Tarantula Kat 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@bobbymoss6160]

The red hour glass on the plush is soooo cute!

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

Black widow spiders make perfectly fine spider pets, as long as you don't try to pick it up and play with it, and as long as you promptly remove the egg sacs which if she's mated, she can produce weekly. The more you feed them, the more eggs sacs they produce. I've taken care of black widows for more than 10 years, and never had an escape, or a bite.

[@boolive1607]

Yay i just ordered it! I cant wait till September to get her!!!! ❤❤❤

[@tarantulacollective]

Awesome video, sister!

[@Lookadragon]

The new Binx Plush reminds me of Coraline with the button eyes 🤩

[@jojosharp5872]

I really hope that one day you'll be able to do something like little key chain plushy, how cute would they be ❤

[@user-dc6jt4fq5m]

I just love your channel ! You have totally got me wanting spiders. I never thought I would have spiders. I now have six.

[@sarahhastings1486]

Hope you're having a great start to your weekend Kat!

[@tarantulakat]

you 2!!

[@danvillebelle6977]

Thanks so much for such a fantastic video. I have a black widow named Thomasin; I rescued her as a teeny tiny baby from the corner of my garage about this time last year. I love watching her and she's fully grown now and thriving. They are SO COOL to watch wrap their prey and eat.

[@peterhough4463]

Woohoo !~!~ we ordered our Binx to add to our web of your stuffies !~~!!~ cant wait !~!~!~

[@tarantulakat]

tysm 🥺 genuinely means a lot people like them.

[@bluephoeenix]

Black Widow spiders are my favorite spiders and jumping spiders. This video is amazing.

[@EmilyRose-fm4qt]

Ordered! I'm so in love 😍

[@tarantulakat]

glad u like her 🥹

[@waltersanchez2623]

AHHH!!! Thank you so much!!! I’ve been spamming your videos with requests for a Binx plushie and I’m SOO HAPPY!!! Just put in my order. I cannot wait!!! :D

[@tarantulakat]

I’m glad you like it! What do you think of the button eyes? 👀

[@waltersanchez2623]

@@tarantulakat I LOVE the button eyes! SUCH a smart choice! And the embroidered hourglass is perfect!!!

[@JadaHolley86]

I love the widow plushy so stinking cute 🥰

[@angelmom79]

I have a southern house spider. She lives in my house free range. I wanted to order one of the habitats but they aren’t available now. I am looking for a few black widows for pets. I have 3 adult female false widows and have raised so many I have lost count. I find them in my house and relocate outside. I also have 4 wolf spiders. I have 2 babies, 2 sub adults. I have raised them from babies. All 4 are wild caught. You and Maple (which I have and love) made me fall inlove with wolf spiders. You have made me fall inlove with widows. I love watching your videos and you have been and are such a huge inspiration to me!! I will be ordering your widow also!! I love the button eyes!!

[@charlesiei6831]

I have two False Black Widows as pets, and they behave just the same. They aren't skittish at all. Very docile species. I have each of them in Kraft mayo plastic jars. With a few crossed toothpicks through small holes. The jars are upside-down so I can easily clean the corpses and poop. The bottoms are covered with old band-aids so they get some shade to hide.

[@Webnwebs273]

So so beautiful I just love the enclosures so cool........

[@AstrovibeHealing]

I recently found a false widow and I’m obsessed! She’s beautiful like a black widow minus the fact she won’t live as long but she’s so much fun to watch and stays out of hiding all day! And watching her catch food is awesome. Love your enclosures!

[@tfl0426]

Couldn’t even wait until the end of the video to order my own Binx plush! Can’t wait to see it!

[@tarantulakat]

🥹🤍

[@VocalChainsStudio]

I’ve watched them hunt crickets in the garage. Normally timid, they drop to the floor with striking purpose. Their long legs allow fairly quick strides. They’re kind of fragile, so it’s fun to see them strong in their element, beautiful, confident, fearsome predators of the night.❤

[@debidehm9129]

I just bought the cutest jumping spider from Temu! It’s so cute, well made, and great price!

[@EmperorPookie]

I just discovered this channel last night and thought to myself "man I really wanted one of the spider plushies" and the timing of that was perfect lol, definitely had to order me a Binx plush lol

[@tarantulacollective]

It must be fate

[@crystal338]

I commented Kat ‘ when are you going to put out a new plushy’ On her last video, and she said that’s weird I’m going to be putting it out in about an hour😆

[@Chewmew]

This is great! I have been wanting to get a widow, but was unsure of how their care was-so this helps. And the plushie is cute. People don’t know what they be talking about. 😬

[@tarantulakat]

🥹

[@billd399]

I love your channel, cool.

[@notaperson9831]

I love widow spiders. So beautiful.

[@1ndonlySpidey]

I LOVE IT WHEN U FEED UR BLACK WIDOWS. THEY'RE SO GENTLE, BUT SO INTERESTING

[@ovaughneysfamly8602]

I just got a black widow this past weekend. It’s so small. The smallest spider I’ve owed so far.

[@krisgibbons7008]

I would love a full video about keeping house spiders! Is there a reason she’s in that type of enclosure instead of a standard spider enclosure?

[@crystal338]

It’s cute, love the big eyes and it’s soft!

[@nourazurinskas1632]

The button eyes remind me of Coraline.I love it

[@boolive1607]

Hopefully ill be able to buy the plushie tomorrow!!! ❤🖤

[@katlee356]

Hi Kat! Can you please make a Bowzer plushie or one of the giant African Jagalolos! The millipedes!

[@debidehm9129]

My little nephew bit me. Unfortunately there was no anti-venom for that either.

[@notaperson9831]

🤣🤣

[@sarahhastings1486]

Man I wish I had the money right now to buy your new plushie ! I love my Wednesday plushie

[@santoroaquatics5038]

14 comment awesome video today Kat you rock and happy Friday you always inspire me every day I love your pet spiders 👍💯💪💪💯👍

[@matthewstump7563]

I caught a black widow crawling across our living room floor a few years back. I decided to keep her in a container. I think we had her for about 6 months and she created an egg sac. Yep, it was full of little ones. She must have stored that juice for a while?

[@vxodia]

Marcellus, my black widow, was my first spider and made me fall in love with all spiders

[@runpurebloodrun2355]

When I was a kid, I found a black widow and put her into a mason jar with holes in the top. We went on vacation for a few months and when I returned home we saw she had babies and they all got out into the house. My mother was livid😀

[@kittymorris2989]

I love the spiders! There are just soo many kinds, it would be hard to choose. I think the black widow is so beautiful. I think I would be too nervous if it got out. The funny thing is something like a Mexican red knee escaping doesn't bother me at all.

[@crystal338]

Would love a Metallica plush! They are venomous like the black widow and have a bad rep too , but they are so gentle and cute.

[@rikkun6815]

They mostly come out at night. Mostly.

[@thecromlover]

In Australia, no one has died from a redback bite since 1958, and there is anti-venom for redbacks

[@mrs.fussaplenty395]

I’m not allowed to have any pet spiders. My husband is not a a fan. So, I leave them alone if i find one in my house or around. Well, I have what i thought is a black widow in my garage. I figured it’s avoiding me and I will avoid it, there are no kids in the home. So, easy to avoid a bite. The problem is that now there are 2 egg sacks! But with closer inspection it may a cupboard spider(false black widow spider). Which we do have in michigan. It is a dark rust color, big bulbous body, and no defining lines on it. The only way to really inspect it is to capture it and if i do, it has to be released outside. Which i don’t want it to die. I don’t know what to do! But i don’t want more of them in my garage!!!!

[@bramdebont8772]

I love those plushies, but i missed all the tarantulas sadly. But if there would ever be a peach/brachypelma hamorii plushy then i gonna buy one without thinking.

[@leslieelkins6051]

I think they are the most gorgeous spiders. I would love to have one but it makes me nervous.

[@mr.personality7762]

Hey Kat, I’ve been on and off your channel for a few years. So tonight I thought I ACTUALLY found my first brown recluse in person, inside my car and I captured it to show my son. Now I’m feeling convinced it’s a simple yellow sac spider 😢. Would you be able to make an identification video by chance showing the differences? I feel sort of defeated, I thought I actually found one, lol

[@faithful_to_the_bay5487]

I want one !

[@Melantha_Twinzzone]

I'm so sad I missed out on pumpkin 🎃 😢

[@wayneneher6362]

Yes, there is an antivenon. Unfortunately, it is able to be uses only once in your lifetime due to its scarcity and difficulty to produce.

[@SpiderSpiderSpiders]

The best spider anti-venom, is to not get bit😁

[@Puffstrashkindom]

I love so mutch

[@reaver357]

That a brown recluse? Kidding😂 Black and brown widows are gorgeous

[@LemmingSee]

i literally live in a room of hundreds of these for 3 years now and never died

[@Invader_Zimi]

Ahhhh Binxs!

[@BrianandAmandasReptileJourney]

Your Black Widows look amazing in the coffin cribs! Were you able to see my comment in your last video? I'm also curious if you still have the spider with birthday 12/10? That's my B'Day! I learn so much from you and appreciate all the hard work you put into your awesome videos. Have a happy weekend TK & Fam❤🍄

[@BrianandAmandasReptileJourney]

I think I found a funnel weaver spider. Never seen one before. I didn't know how to send you the video. On our channel latest video at mark 8:04-9:43 so you don't have to watch the whole video just wanted to share with you the spider.

[@tarantulakat]

I don’t remember which one has that bday 😅 if you remind me of what species it was tho I can tell you. Tysm you too!!

[@BrianandAmandasReptileJourney]

@tarantulakat lol it was your Intense unboxing 9 tarantulas it was a c elegance heart born 12/10/22. Also Winona is beautiful! Do you still have Nibbles? I almost bought an OBT but chickened out lol.

[@tarantulakat]

@@BrianandAmandasReptileJourney yes I still have Nibbles & u know she might make a perfect plush … 👀

[@BrianandAmandasReptileJourney]

@tarantulakat I'm obsessed with spider plushy!

[@SRHMorbid]

We have a beautiful widow in our backyard, she already has an egg sack. Idk if I should get her or let the babies hatch. But we have pest control so they'll die anyways. Shes down inside a brick so she's hard to get to

[@katieadams7708]

I got bitten by one when I was 12. I was camping, went to the latrine and had no idea she was living under the latrine seat. I sat down, and while doing my business felt a big pinch. I thought I had gotten a splinter from the wooden seat…. Until o started to get really sick. It was awful. I already knew I was allergic to bee venom and carried an epi pen. My counselors administered my epi pen and called an ambulance. I don’t blame the spider at all. She was just defending herself. However it is NOT an experience I’d like to repeat.

[@rodneybever9583]

Black widows are one of my favorite true spiders she is the queen of my office.

[@monicamares9198]

It's funny this video came out when it fid earlier the same day I found what I thought was a dead blsck widow but then i asked a Facebook group and a couple people say they have no idea what spider it is because it's huge but no red spot so it would be a male but otd too big to be a male

[@gregwilliams853]

Yes, there is an antivenom for black widow venom.

[@nikipinz]

Black widows are gorgeous. I wish I lived in a place where I could keep one

[@SydsSweetTs]

Reminds me or Coraline!

[@pocketgrain5211]

Omg Kat have you seen the Beetlejuice 2 trailer? 🤯

[@tarantulakat]

YES OMG

[@ricepicker84]

I'm here friend 👋

[@mariestubbs4606]

The gorgeous Binx ...

[@crystal338]

I just bought a Maple plush on eBay and payed double😆 I am nuts

[@tarantulakat]

Oh no 😂

[@crystal338]

Or have you done a heart butt plush? I forget what they’re called

[@_-mockingjay-_hg3518]

hey I’m from France and I just wondered if i could buy one in my country? is it legal? Does the legislation enable this?

[@candyscott489]

So I want to tell you something. My barely sub-adult versicolor has been in her hide for 3 months, I figured per-molt. So last night I took the back off & what did I find but a sac. What !! Was able to feed her & take the beautiful Snow White sac out with little dried up eggs. What do you think of that 😳😳😳 Comment please

[@Big69668]

Lactrodectus mactans bites are very rare. Males have less venom than Females. And yes there is a antivenom called Antivenin Lactrodectus mactans.

[@Big69668]

1983 I believe was the last death in the US.

[@Cryptkeeper-cp4wr]

There is a black widow anti venom however it's in Mexico and is banned in the USA.

[@halfie44]

A cool spider but not one for me, I find them a bit creepy 😅 they're awesome nonetheless

[@jamesfleming5830]

will you ever rerelease older plushies for newer fans or fans that just couldn't afford it at the time?

[@drb8197]

Next plushie should come gravid 😂