Ally's Eight-Legged Journey

Yesterday I was rather aggressively threatened with a "ban hammer" in one of the tarantula groups that I joined for educating myself on my spiders. They jumped on me instantly, for posting this photo of myself "handling" my tarantula, and promoting bad animal husbandry, without even asking the circumstances. In this particular picture (below) I had accidentally knocked Lolth's enclosure onto the floor and he had free fallen 3 feet down to the ground and landed on my sock. I picked him up before he went onto my pesticide-infused carpets (I also have two cats, and cats come with the risk of fleas, so my carpets are flea treated - unfortnuately, flea treatment is no observer of species!) and took a photo to be able to assess damage before I put him into another enclosure. Once I was sure that Lolth was okay and I had calmed down, I then posted the picture to a group asking about tarantulas life stages as I was wondering whether he was a spiderling or a juvenile - a...