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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

PreysTarantulas 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