Breeding wild tarantulas
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This is my mature male desert blonde (Aphonopelma chalcodes) breeding with the local population of spiders.
I found Ricky last summer as a juvenile male wandering around all alone in the middle of a soccer field, so I took him home and took care of him through his maturing molt. I thought it would be a good idea to try and breed him with the big females nearby, and this is what I got!
Ricky was released after breeding with the third big female, and I've marked the female's burrows so I can check for babies later.
Filmed in Prescott, Arizona