Check the lifestage
Spiderlings, juveniles and adults can differ in price, growth speed, visibility and confidence level. Pick the animal you can house properly now, not just the one with the nicest photo.
Current UK availability
Browse new world burrowing tarantulas currently listed by our UK specialist tarantula shop, with clear lifestages, live stock information and linked species care guides.
Shopping guidance
Spiderlings, juveniles and adults can differ in price, growth speed, visibility and confidence level. Pick the animal you can house properly now, not just the one with the nicest photo.
Linked Species guides explain temperament, enclosure style, humidity and feeding notes before you buy. They are there to save both you and the spider from avoidable drama.
Availability can change as orders come in, so product pages show the current lifestage and stock status. If something vanishes, it probably found a new shelf to sit on.
Expert at vanishing acts; expect either bold stripy legs on display or nothing but a mysteriously shifting mound of dirt for weeks at a time.
Sits out like royalty until disturbed, then promptly treats you to a dramatic hair-flicking routine—grounded, decorative, and not above redecorating the moss without warning.
Frequently spotted perched in plain view, occasionally rearranging their décor with the sort of mild enthusiasm reserved for Sunday gardeners.
Spends days lounging like it’s got nowhere to be, only stirring when it fancies a snack or a dramatic moult. Refuses food with the air of a spider above such things.
Expects darkness, detests drama—vanishes at the hint of movement but leaves a subtle webbed calling card to prove it hasn’t tunnelled into oblivion just yet.
Prone to a sudden moonwalk into the hide at the faintest hint of movement—clearly believes the best offence is making you question if it was ever there at all.
Dashes for cover faster than your reflexes and redecorates nightly, leaving you to wonder if you even own a spider or just a particularly energetic patch of web.
Keeps to itself until the lights go out, then redecorates with webbing like it’s prepping for a midnight exhibition. Shy, swift, and not at all fussed about human approval.
Unfazed by life's dramas, this one spends its days rearranging substrate, sulking in a burrow, or pretending dinner is an unexpected audit.
Usually a glimpse of legs vanishing underground, but will surface unexpectedly—especially if you foolishly believed you’d never see it again.
Vivid blue, rarely seen—unless it’s vanished dinner or you’re cleaning, in which case, brace yourself for a sudden lesson in eight-legged sprinting.
Wanders about like it owns the place, then indignantly flicks hairs if interrupted—subtlety never was L. striatipes’ strong suit, but visibility is rarely an issue.
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