THERAPHOSA:

In Search of the World's Largest Spider

In 1801 Jean Baptist Leblond, a slaver and platinum smuggler, found the worlds largest spider.  Four years later, Andre Latreille, an ex-priest turned biologist, described it as Mygale leblondi, now known as Theraphosa blondi.

In 2022 - Andrew Smith & Guy Tansley went to Suriname to tell that story - and discovered a new giant tarantula, new to science - Theraphosa surinamensis.

This documentary is the story of that spider and is the most extensive study ever undertaken of the genus.

Length: 143 mins.

EPHEBOPUS:

In Search of South America's Skeleton Tarantula

Ephebopus murinus is one of the world's most striking tarantulas, whose story is bound up in the earliest days of arachnohistory. This documentary contains the first field footage ever filmed of E. murinus, including footage of a female with spiderlings and contains unique location footage of E. rufescens mating. It also explains the biology of a genus that is strikingly different from all other New World Tarantulas.

Length: 96 mins.

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