In the afternoon I gave the smallest of the tarantulas I keep, a
Hapalopus sp. Colombia large form sling, a small mealworm, Tenebrio
molitor. Even though the mealworm was larger than the tarantula, as
soon as I dropped it next to it, the tarantula attacked the larva,
wrestled with it, and subdued it.
Hapalopus sp. Colombia large form eating a mealworm, Tenebrio molitor.
I keep this species since April the 7th,
2020. And while I have
attempted to give it pre-killed mealworms before as far as I know this
is the first time it actually eats in my care.
This spider has the common name "Pumpkin Patch" tarantula because
of the orange pattern on the abdomen. For more information on this
dwarf tarantula read
Hapalopus sp. Colombia – The “Pumpkin
Patch”
by Tom Moran.
I previously wrote how to configure minicom to connect to a device
over serial
UART. In
that post I mentioned that minicom might not be the best tool for
the
job. Consider
that minicom is adding a lot of unnecessary complexity. If you
think about it, we are taking a command line utility intended for
communicating with modems, stripping all that functionality away so
that we are left with nothing more than a terminal emulator that
knows how to connect to a foreign TTY. Yet, we are probably
running minicom from a perfectly capable terminal emulator such as
xterm. All we need is a way of connecting our terminal emulator to
the target serial port in raw mode. As long as the device side is
running a login on the receiving end, we can simply let our terminal
emulator do what it was designed for.
In the afternoon I checked on the Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
sling I keep and noticed that it was resting on the part of the
substrate I keep slightly moist. Because it was quite dry I added some
water with a dosing syringe expecting the tarantula to take a drink
but instead it attacked the water. Time to try to feed it, so I gave
it a small mealworm larva, Tenebrio molitor.
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens eating a mealworm, Tenebrio molitor.
I have been taking care of this spiderling since February the
23rd, 2020
when I bought it at the Invertebrate Show in Harmelen.
This tarantula has the common name "Green Bottle Blue" (GBB for short)
and is considered a beginner species. For more information on this
tarantula read C. cyaneopubescens (or the
GBB)
by Tom Moran.
