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2020-07-09, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Help me Name my New Pet Spiders!
I raise tarantulas as a hobby and just yesterday I got some little babies (spiderlings or "slings") of a species I've been trying to acquire for a long time and they're very smol and very cute and I'm very excited.
Their scientific name is "Sericopelma sp.Santa Catalina" (common name "Santa Catalina Red Legged Birdeater").
I got three of them and I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for names.
Something thematic and interesting. Could be serious or silly. One genus I keep is funny words in Spanish (Jiraffa, Cuchillo, Esteban Universidad), another is words relating to royalty or authority (Duchess, The Duke, Destro, Baroness, Princess Snu Snu). This is very likely the only species I'll keep from this genus, so I only need a theme big enough for three.
Most likely, I won't know their sex for a year or more, so unisex names (or names that can be gender-flipped) are cool (but not mandatory).
Any help is appreciated! Or if you just want to talk about tarantulas, or are interested in anything about their keeping, I'm into that too!
Spoiler: Little Baby Spiders in their Little Spider Houses!
And this is what they'll look like when they're grown up:
Spoiler: Growed Up Spider!
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2020-07-09, 09:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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You'd have to get lucky on the sexes for this to work, but Peter, Miles, and Gwen.
Id also be surprised if you don't already have spiders named that.Last edited by Peelee; 2020-07-09 at 09:55 AM.
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2020-07-09, 09:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Let's spout off a silly one: Incy, Wincy and Spider?
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Not only do I not have any spiders named that, that actually never even occurred to me. I think I might have to turn in my nerd-card.
Where are you from? We sing that song 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' here in the Great Frozen North. Where do they say "incy, wincy."
And they are certainly small enough that some rain would put a serious dent in their day.Last edited by truemane; 2020-07-09 at 09:56 AM.
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2020-07-09, 10:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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If only you had another, you could have gone with Inky, Winky, Blinky, and Clyde. Could skip Clyde, I suppose, the other three are nicely unisex.
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2020-07-09, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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I have not yet come up with some appropriate Spider names, but I want to mention that in the images of them as babies, the lighter trichobothria on their front four legs makes them look like they've got wee white arm warmers on. That's adorable.
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2020-07-09, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Since there's just three you could name them after graph directions, X, Y and Z.
Or after the three wise monkeys, See, Hear and Say/Speak.Sanity is nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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If you wanted to go fancy, how about the three Fates from Greek mythology? I don't know if birdeaters are that known for spinning, but the Greeks called 'em Clotho, (Spinner, because she spun the thread of fate) Lachesis (Allotter, who decided who got what fate) and Atropos (Inflexible, because she cut the thread and therefore killed the individual). The Roman versions (aka slightly different but basically recolours, but I believe one of the main differences is that they were often evoked regarding childbirth) are Nona, Decuma, and Morta.
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Yakko, Wakko & Dot?
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Nezznar, Raja Rudatha, and Fugleederkopp.
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Ungoliant, Shelob, & Saenathra?
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
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2020-07-09, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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I can't think of many names that sound similar to Great Britain. Australia has one, but I'm fairly certain they don't say "incy wincy spider" there. And in any event, simular-sounding country names is a silly way to determine how a song differs.
Take that, amusingly-written Wikipedia sentence fragment!Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/itsy-and-bitsy
We had spiders called Itsy and Bitsy in a children's TV programme back in the day. British TV is *weird*.
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I kind of like taking the names of mythological figures associated with spiders in one form or another. Arachne, Anansi (or simply "Nancy"), Indra, Sanzang (or Tripitaka), et c.
You could also go with a trio of literary spider names: say, Charlotte, Shelob, and Aragog.
I love the leg warmers too, very 80's work-out video. Maybe you could name them after famous leg-warmer-wearers. For example: Jane Fonda, Suzanne Somers, and Olivia Newton John. Or just Jane, Suzanne, and Olivia for short.
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2020-07-09, 09:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Both good ideas. A little more generic than I was hoping for.
That is a good idea. All tarantulas web up the ground where they live. Some more than others. So they all spin, technically, at least a little. The Fates are maybe a little too fancy for these guys. I'll keep that one in mind, though, if I should acquire something that feels fancy enough to merit it.
Heh. That's worth considering for sure.
These guys aren't evil enough. They're cute and fun and should be pretty docile. I'd need way nastier spiders to carry those names.
I try to stay away from Ungoliant, Shelob, Aragog and associated names. They're super common. Well, common among tarantula nerds anyway.
I was thinking of riffing on Anansi/Nancy. See above for my general avoidance of Charlotte, Shelob and Aragog.
Leg warmer performers is a good idea. Cyndi Lauper and Madonna also sported them at one time or another.
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Attercop, Tomnoddy and Lazy Lob.
These of couse do have actual linguistic origins if you were look them up, because it's Tolkien, of course they did...
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Last edited by truemane; 2020-07-10 at 10:18 AM.
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Mephala, Varys and errr Lolth?
There’s also Shamrodia, but that one is ridiculously obscure.Forum Wisdom
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And also my unfortunate misspelling of the word 'dog.'
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