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Tarantulas Brianna 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


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Tarantulas

Brianna

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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
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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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