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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
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.
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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