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Texas Brown Tarantula

aphonopelma hentzi

The Texas Brown Tarantula is a large spider that loves to burrow in the ground. These hairy creatures are fascinating to watch as they move around their habitats at night!

Lebensraum: Grasslands, forests, and burrows in Texas

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The Texas Brown Tarantula is a large, hairy arachnid, typically dark brown to black. Its stout body and legs are covered in fine, velvety hairs, giving it a fuzzy appearance distinct from smoother spiders.

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Texas Brown Tarantula
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Texas Brown Tarantula

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

A Texas Brown Tarantula cleans itself like a cat, carefully grooming its legs and fangs.

Despite its name, its color can range from dark brown to black, and even reddish.

They taste their food with tiny sensory organs located on their pedipalps, not just their mouths.

This tarantula often lives in an underground burrow, sometimes for many decades!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Urticating Hairs

Texas Brown Tarantula has barbed hairs on its abdomen that helps them defend against predators by irritating skin or eyes.

Fähigkeit

Silk Spinner

Texas Brown Tarantula can produce silk to line its burrow, wrap prey, and create egg sacs that helps protect its young.

Fähigkeit

Limb Regrowth

Texas Brown Tarantula can regrow lost legs through molting because this ability helps them recover from injuries.

Maße und Details

Size Cm
15 cm
Weight Grams
40 g
Lifespan Years
25 Jahre
Clutch Size
750

Ernährung und Fütterung

This fuzzy hunter loves to munch on crunchy insects and sometimes even tiny vertebrates!

Hauptnahrung

  • crickets
  • grasshoppers
  • beetles
  • small lizards
  • small mice

Nahrungssuche

  • Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Tarantula Hawk Wasp

Pepsis formosa

Wasps paralyze tarantulas to lay eggs on them.

hunts

Field Cricket

Gryllus assimilis

A common insect often caught and eaten by the tarantula.

eaten by

Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia

Sometimes preys on wandering tarantulas, especially males.

eaten by

Coyote

Canis latrans

Mammals can sometimes dig up and eat tarantulas from their burrows.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Brown TarantulaHentz's TarantulaTexas SpiderTexas Tarantula

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Always observe from a distance and do not try to touch wild tarantulas.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Wie groß ist Texas Brown Tarantula?

15 cm

Wie viel wiegt Texas Brown Tarantula?

40 g

Wie lange lebt Texas Brown Tarantula?

25 Jahre

Was frisst Texas Brown Tarantula?

This fuzzy hunter loves to munch on crunchy insects and sometimes even tiny vertebrates!

Wo findet man Texas Brown Tarantula normalerweise?

Grasslands, forests, and burrows in Texas

Wie jagt Texas Brown Tarantula?

Ambush

Was ist der/die/das clutch Size von Texas Brown Tarantula?

750

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