The successful pairing and babies of our Hogna miami wolf spider 

I don’t keep spiders. I don’t plan on ever keeping spiders... but this is absolutely my favorite RU-vid channel right now. Watching your passion for this hobby is inspiring and the way you treat your beasties has changed the way I see all spiders. I now catch them around the house and release them outside instead of killing them. Thanks!!

You covered this like a sports announcer 😂😂😂 really tho, it was amazing to see something other than tarantulas up close. To me, they look like giant jumping spiders with those eyes. And seeing all the babies on her back was adorable. Awesome video.

I love how he starts drinking from her water dish after she was pissed off he was even still around 😂😂

Im literally horrified of spiders in general but watching Dave handle them shows me what amazing little creatures they really are.

“This guy is so switched-on that he’s reacting to any kind of movement” Haha teenager spider :P

"he just had a poo in the water bowl.. dirty little soul.." lol

His pattern/colouration and spotting is GORGEOUS. There's something human about the way he wanted to clean off, have a drink, go to the bathroom, and clean again before he left

She didn't waste any time kickin' him to the door, did she. XD Awesome to see this.

"That was thirsty work!" Thirsty work indeed. What a champ. Cheers, Dave!

Their way of communication is fascinatingly beautiful. Well done on both your parts!

This reminds me of a one night stand I had once. Except I didnt get a drink of water followed by pooping in said water afterwards.

these spiders have the coolest faces

This guy probably scares the crap out of his great neices and nephews. Him: check out this nice spider here Kids: ahhhhhhhhhhh😮😮😮😮

I don't know if I should feel impressed or disappointed that a wolf spider has more game than me 😭😭

I thought I had my hands full with twins with two older children. All in under 4 years!🤣❤️👍🏼

i cant believe i actually spent 20 minutes watching spider sex and actually learning about it pretty interesting and really cool i never seen a spider just bend down to drink i didn't think they drank water i thought they just bathed in it.

Dave gives me that well liked motivated teacher vibe !

They scare the shit out of me but when dave talks and tells you about them I feel calm and relaxed

"love is In the air" Fem wolf spider: get me the hell outta here!!!

To you that’s an exotic spider but to me it’s my backyard spider and that is part of what is so interesting about watching your videos Dave.

My daughter wants me to tell you that she thought your sweater is really „pretty“ (6 yo). She absolutely loves it. =3

I've been keeping reptiles, amphibians and arachnids for 36 years now and I used to breed tarantulas. I currently only have 1 tarantula now. She's a pink zebra beauty. As my tarantulas have grown old and passed away I've switched to keeping native spiders for the most part. I keep false widows, cellar spiders, wolf spiders, jumping spiders, fishing spiders and woodlouse spiders. All of them are extremely interesting. The downside is that native spiders have a much shorter lifespan but I guess that can be kinda seen as an advantage too. When a specimen passes away you can get a new one or try a completely new species all together. All spiders are fun to observe.

He had to get a drink after all that work. 🤣

You don’t have to go home but you better get out of here LMAO

The way she just chucks him off!! 🤣🤣🤣 "Right, get off me Hank I got shhh to do!"

Amazing to see the differences between the true spider and tarantula mating. I thought at first the male was confused. 😂 silly me.

She flinged him into the water like "Cool off pal!". He's like "Rude! I'm gonna clean my privates off in your drinking water and then I'll poo in it, somethin' to remember me by".

“All of her legs are up in the air” - Dave Gotta love it!! 🤣😂😜😁

8.2/10 Truly excellent dismount.

I am not into spiders, but you make it so much more neat to watch

That was my first time seeing wolf spider pairing, I'd have thought he was attacking her at first, they really are different, I love the eyes and markings on these beasties... Well done again Dave.. 😃👍

It felt like I was looking at a documantary. This was a awesome video dave...

13:46 for a moment I thought he was going to lunge at the camera, but then he just slowly saunters to the side cool as anything. Wolf spiders look horrifying with these big black eyes but they also look goofy and cute too. Intriguing creatures! Great video mate!

15:40: Mom:" Jimmy, GET your foot out of my eye..!" 😜

Another amazing vid Dave and what a great mother too her babies and the enclosure so natural looking , n brill camera work by the amazing Camera Lady ...

I just absolutely, love this channel! As always, very educational and interesting, too say the least. I especially found this one intriguing,🤔because of the extra information that I was able to learn. I'm from the deep Southern part of the "USA 🇺🇲!" We see these particular type of, "Carolina Wolf Spiders," everywhere. It's not odd too look down and see a MaMa Wolf, casually carrying a ton of little babies on her back. (😆LOL) I have twin children and I've been worn out for yrs., 😉 much less a 100 or so hanging on! ❣ Mother Nature is just beautiful! Again, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the world. Have a blessed day !

Interesting pairing of babies

I really enjoyed that, I like their big eyes. I like how the mother is carrying her children on her back. Good ole mom.

Another great video Dave and Camera Master Right on love the operation. When she was done she flicked him right into the water bowel like saying ok go cool off take a cold bath lol 😆 ❤

I grew up here in south Florida and these always put me on edge as a child because of how fast the move. It is really quite unnerving to see them traverse the whole of a kitchen floor in the blink of and eye.

You calling the male "A dirty little soul" is absolutely hilarious 😂💀 Best believe I'll be using that one!! Your narrations are second to none in every single video

They communicate so much, that's defiantly smarter than most spiders

Killer vid as always. Living in Florida, I see wolf spiders all the time. I love watching them hunt and explore. Their maternal instinct is definitely there in the wild as well. The other species that's predominant where I live is nephila clavipes.

I just love the thousand yard stare as he cleans.

I just love his little face

This is one of the most incredible videos i've ever seen in my entire life.

These spiders have an amazing looking carapace, in Australia, they're everywhere, but they also have the most awesome camouflage so usually they go unnoticed, as is the purpose of such coloration, i usually only notice them when I'm gardening, or moving things around in my garage and practically pick one up, inducing a little squeel, and maybe a little bit of poo!.🤣. Until I subbed to this channel, I had an irrational fear of all spiders and would either run, or squish them.. sometimes both,.. Please forgive me for admitting this, but such was my fear and hatred of them... Till now, now I just leave them be, though not before taking a picture of them... Dave's beasties has saved many many spiders due to his sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for all spiders and scorpions..Your teaching us just how misunderstood and unnecessarily persecuted these creatures really are, has proven so true in my life, So thanks to Dave and the beastie crew, especially the beasties themselves. 👍😃

8:38: They sure do it in a... FANCY style!😳 😂

That was incredible! I can't wait to show my family members. Lots of chills & thrills 😁

I’m not an arachnophobe by any means, but there’s just something about wolf spiders, that I find unsettling

The way you've decorated her enclosure is first rate and you can see she appreciates it. These spiders with way their 2 larger eyes face forward gives them an almost human look. I can see now that the spiders I kept pulling out of my pool were probably not wolf spiders after all and now idk what they are. I need to investigate this cause there's a bunch of them here in south Florida. A load of insects somehow land on the pool's surface and so eventually wind up in the skimmer and whatever type spider keeps showing up in there I now realize was no doubt just taking advantage of an all you can eat buffet.

This was a really great video! You narrated so well, and I love the way you let them chill after, and reassured us when I thought they would try to run off!

I've only recently started watching this channel but i love how much he cares about his spiders.

Nature is beautiful.

That was amazing ! When I was a child I remember seeing the mother spider carrying her young on her back and if you touched her the babies would scatter and then come right back !

As we've come to expect from you that was brilliant Dave, that was right up my street, I watch all of your videos but good true spider videos are like rocking horse s*** on RU-vid so this was much appreciated, thanks

Its funny, your commentary with these romance videos always reminds me of cricket matches..

I have never seen this kind of copulation before is it special to Wolf spider or all true spiders so interesting ..wow that is so cool her babies on her like that plus an other egg sack coll vid

Excellent funny commentary, spider porn🤣 great channel by the way keeps me coming back.

That’s so amazing! She was like, get the hell off of me!

Take off,Have a swim in me bowl!!! Lol very different pairing, sort of jack And jill!!

Great camera work again. I never knew they clung on mums back like that!

Super fascinating behaviour from these two. Also I'm in love with their coloration 😍 Commentary and camera work were flawless again!

My dad killed a mother wolfspider when I wasn't around and I managed to save 3 spiderlings, so far it looks like only one survived. I've always wanted to have one as a pet and I think this is the perfect opportunity, she's been with me for 3 days now!

That was amazing to see the difference between true spiders and tarantulas. I’m learning so much!! Thank you for sharing!!

She's not throbbing, she's thrusting 😂 He's the the one throbbing haha... I'm so bad 😂

Great video Dave, thanks also for editing the different stages so the impatient ones amongst us don’t have to wait!

Brilliant video Dave. It was like watching a wildlife programme. I really really enjoyed it. Bearing in mine I’ve been completely arachnophobic till recently when I managed to enjoy tarantulas. True spiders are another thing however, instead of bypassing this video I decided to watch it and was intrigued.

That was an amazing video. Thank you Dave . And those babies were adorable. 🤞 for the next clutch . 🕷 🕸

This was such an interesting video, I have just found you so I will be catching up on all of your videos! 😀

Dude I live in Florida, those things are everywhere. They keep all the babies on their abdomen.

My mom found a wold spider and was going to kill it, so I kept it. I was so amazed with it. Nice video.

Beautiful job on the enclosure ! Looks quite real!

Dave the commentary was the best I’ve heard, and your videos made me realize how similar we are to animals, we like to think we’re different because we feel fear, happy, sad, anxiety, love, but I’ve realized animals feel those emotions too. Your videos make me want to start tarantula keeping

This man is an absolute professional and I truely enjoy watching his videos. I'm totally petrified of spiders huge and microscopic but he is so calm and collected I feel safe as a babe in the arms of a mother.

She flicked him off and he landed in the pool 😂

amazing to see those babies all on her back!!

This channel has opened me up to a whole new world and I love it

Not gonna lie, listening to you talk about spiders (and yes I have arachnophobia), is almost ASMR, I am dozing off. Doesn't mean I'm not interested! I am fascinated, but also, your voice and tone is very soothing!

That was so cool to see the mom with her babies!

Loved this paring especially how there diffrent then normal tarantulas

More than one egg sack that’s incredible amazing spiders 🕸

My favourite spider a true spider very much like an English house spider accept for the web. Well done Dave

I genuinely watched a spider 69 another spider. Nice.

What a sweet momma! I haven’t seen a video with a wolf mother with babies on her back in captivity, it’s just amazing to see.

When she ran and he just looked at her much to say " where you going baby, don't make me chase you cos I will" lol.

Thanks to your channel I’ve slowly moved away from my arachnophobia. Through understanding and education I’ve gotten over a lot of the irrational fear that these guys bring. I’m also thankful that after Discovery moved away from educational material I’ve been able to find your channel and just expand the wealth of knowledge about nature with your help. Keep up the stellar work man, this stuff is amazing.

So amazing I love how active and how much of a personality they have

wow what a beautiful. amazing, and truly fascinating video! masterfully done, and very informative. this is by far the greatest pairing video ive ever seen. its totally complete from start to finish. i will be sharing this and im really looking forward to seeing more of your videos. youve more than earned my sub! Hogna Wolf spiders are my favorite type of spiders. i just find them to be absolutely stunning!

What an awesome spider, I always loved wolfspiders/Tarantel and your video of them is very interessting, thank you for this documentation.

Really rare Footage! Congrats Dave!

Very fascinating . I love the fact that many of us in the USA regard Wolf spiders as a pest we don't want around. Daves happily breeding them! Love your videos! Michigan fan ❄⛄🇺🇸

I absolutely LOVE seeing the wolf spiders with their babies! They're my favorite mommas! Thank you so much for this video!!!!

my DIY exposure therapy was going great until this video lol but i made it thru and learned some things while i was as it. somehow these guys are a million times scarier to me than any tarantula >___< we have a couple species of wolf spiders here in pennsylvania also.

this was fascinating! and those babies are adorable. I love the way she's caring for the babies.

Female spider: Human do you happen to have a smoke?

U are so good at this

Loved it, his face was a picture of triumph. Another great spidy video!

Absolutely amazing to watch my friend. The knowledge you have is unbelievable. Love your commentary Dave. Thanks for a great video 🖤🕷🕸

My gosh I'm normally so scared of these guys(not that I'd hurtvthem) but you,have made me smile while watching a video on spiders...never thought is hear myself saying that....thankyou