Papa-pepper, the inspiration! @papa-pepper
Welp, many of you know @papa-pepper and have grown to love him as I have.
He is helping me with my pets food source at the moment, and I am so happy to have made a friend. Someone who cares, who selflessly gives of them from their time bank and resources.
He heard my cry for help and delivered and that speaks to me leaps and bounds of their character! I hope I meet you one day my friend, your kindness warms my heart!
He has helped me get an indoor garden started by sending me peppers, and an array of seeds!
Now, he is sending me mealworms for my spiders which I will breed to keep food for my spiders, as well as a good food source for myself. (High protein, and no I am not kidding)
I am honored to be a part of this community, and honored to have people who care about my, and my pets!
So without further delay, here is a few pictures I posted for @steemitqa when we were just talking about the spiders.
This one is Bob:
This one is Marley:
Bob is a little lighter in color with more brown, and Marley has blacker legs, but a lighter center. They are both male "Brown Tranchulas" and are not harmful to humans. They eat anything from insects, to small animals but have yet to bite me. Although, in their current state, I have noticed when holding them they tend to be attracted to small movements of my fingers. Although, I am not one to let them get close, and have even started keeping cloth in between myself and them. Maybe after they aren't so hungry I will hold them bare skinned again, but for now I can tell they are hungry.
As Papa-pepper has inspired me to take good care of the things around me, start a garden, and now to start a meal worm farm. I am blessed by the friendship and help I have received.
May this new year be a great one for all of us, as I feel steemians like ourselves will always be making the internet, and the world. A much much, better place!
Thanks for reading my friends, have an awesome day and a Happy New Year!
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Woohoo! Thanks for letting me know, this post for sure has been a fun one!
nice post!!!
Thank you very much!
Glad he was able to help out. Glad to hear about the garden and even starting to Bread the worms. I never knew they could bite.
Yea, they can bite but in most cases they won't. They would only target humans if in danger or harmed, or seriously hungry. At one point I did have one go after my finger when I twitched, I put it back in the cage after that and I don't handle them much right now. Only to check on them to make sure they are okay.
Wow. I learned something new. As a kid my neighbor had one but I was to young to remember much about it.
Glad I could teach you something! I had a friend get bit once, it drew blood, it wasn't mine that bit them though. If you grab them or pinch them they are likely to bite you to fend off what they assume to be attackers. They feel sounds, and vibrations, so big movements like human interactions aren't something they feel is worthy of biting. The venom they carry isn't harmful to humans but can sting pretty bad from what I hear.
Keep in mind that some tarantulas are more dangerous but these are harmless, even if they were to bite. I love them because of this as they make great pets to play with, feed insects, and awesome to show off to people who will interact with them.
Personally, spiders are among my favorite animals. I used to keep black widows, and brown recluse spiders when I lived in Mississippi, now those you don't EVER play with.
I recently just saw a make black widow inside. Normally all I have ever seen has been the females.
Ohh! Yea? That is awesome, I have only seen a few males in my life and never had the pleasure of catching one. It would be a treat indeed as they tend to die a lot faster because after mating well... you know how the females got their name.