This in the news today about baboon spiders..
Johannesburg - It was not a job for the squeamish, but it ultimately saved several hundred baboon spiders. The job entailed moving two species from a construction site, where a road was being widened at Exxaro’s Grootegeluk mine, near Lephalale in Limpopo.
'Collecting the spiders meant digging around the burrow, then picking the creatures up by hand.
“Each of these spiders can be handled by hand, they are very docile animals,” said Fuls.
Out of the about 400 spiders handled, there were just two bites.
And being bitten, according to Jacobs, is no big deal. “It is a bit like a bee sting,” he said.
The spiders’ new home was nearby Manketti game reserve.
Read the full article on IOL here (NB. if an ad page pops up close it and then the article will load)
www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/environmen...1550709#.Ue1z3ec3CSp