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Tarantula Characteristics • Tarantulas are invertebrates • They have fur all over their body. • They can be blue, black, orange, brown, and many other colors • Tarantulas have eight eyes • Tarantulas sometimes live in the wild • Tarantulas adapt to live in their environment • Tarantulas live in dry, well-drained soils in open areas of the desert • Tarantulas live independently
More Tarantula Characteristics • Tarantulas are cold blooded creatures • Female tarantulas live from 30-40 years • Male tarantulas live from 1-1.5 years • Tarantulas do not keep their mates for life • They are arthropods • Tarantulas are venomous but mot to humans • Tarantulas eat crickets, grasshoppers, and caterpillars
Tarantulas Predators and Preys Tarantulas eat moths, grasshoppers, beetle larvae, katydids, and cockroaches.Tarantulas are carnivores.Tarantulas will most likely eat once a week.Tarantulas use their venom to catch their prey.Tarantulas defend themselves by throwing needle-like, barbed wires at their attackers.
Tarantulas Predators and Preys • A tarantulas food chain is grass is the producer, mice are 1st consumers, snakes are 2nd consumers, tarantulas are 3rd consumers, worms are the discomposes then it go's back to grass. • A tarantulas predators are weasels, hawks, owls, skunks and snakes.
Interesting Facts • Some tarantula species are endangered • When tarantulas are getting attacked they bite and their bites are painful • Tarantulas are talented climbers • At least one species of tarantulas flash blue • One of the smallest tarantula is called the aphonpelma • The biggest thing a tarantula has ever eaten is a mouse.
Random Facts About Tarantulas Tarantulas are not venomous to humans Tarantulas eat beetles, katydids, caterpillars and the biggest thing a tarantula has eaten is a mouse Tarantulas are carnivores because they feed on humans Tarantulas use their venom to catch their preys Tarantulas do NOT keep their mates for life Tarantulas have eight eyes
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