Goliath Bird Eating Spiders
Goliath bird eating spider is a tarantula spider belonging to the family group spider eating bird. It is a spider the second largest in the world (in the span foot, which is the second of the spider hunter huge it) are considered to be, it is the exploration of the Victorian era may be the largest by Spider maximum diameter have witnessed a hummingbird who eat gets its name from the report of the house.
Description
These clouds may have a leg length of up to (12 inches) 30 cm, you can weigh on the (6 ounces) 170 grams. Birdeaters, because in some species of tarantula are not located in the first pair of legs of the majority of adult males to help keep the teeth of the women between the coupling spurs of the tibia has been immobilized , that of the female eat the male.
Poison..
Birdeater Goliath is Harmless to Humans
Birdeater Goliath is like most species of tarantula, quite harmless to humans. Tarantula, all seem to have a large enough tusk break the skin (1.9 to 3.8 cm or inch up to 1.5 from 0.75) humans. They have poison fangs, they have been known to bite when they feel the threat, poison is relatively harmless, and its effect is comparable to bee stings. They are, with the release of the hair is very irritating to the skin and mucous membranes even when the hind legs and abdomen rub feel threatened. In addition, there can be harmful to humans, as most harmful hair tarantula bite, have a stinging hair are considered part. Tarantula is biting a human and normal for self-defense, these bites, the poison will not (also referred to as "dry bite") at all times. You can feel from his roost birdeater of Goliath and vision problems, but are based on the vibration of the ground mainly that.
Life cycle
Women may be teammates, they always eat their fellow sometimes. Females mature in three to four years, it has a life expectancy of 25 years from 15. Has a life of 3 to 6 years for men and die shortly after maturation. Range of colors from dark to light brown with faint markings of the foot. Birdeaters has the hair of his body, abdomen, and legs. Female lays anywhere in hatching egg to juvenile to 200 100 to 2 months.
Habitat and ecological
Theraphosa blondi is specific to the tropical rainforest region of northern South America. Wild Goliath birdeaters is a species dig live in burrows that, typically, that the digging they organisms dig a hole that the other was abandoned, often found in the area of swamp and marsh, deep holes.
Diet
Despite its name, the Goliath Birdeater, usually do not have to eat the bird. As with other species (especially tarantulas), their diet is composed mainly of insects and other invertebrates spider. But in order to kill a variety of vertebrate this kind of consumption, its natural size is large, it is not uncommon. In the wild, large species of tarantula has been seen to eat rodents, lizards, bats, snakes, poison more fatal.
In captivity, the staple food of the Goliath Birdeater There are cockroaches (Dubia cockroach general, Blaptica dubia) need to be configured. Juvenile and boy, you can become crickets and cockroaches were supplied so as not to exceed the length of the body of the individual. Feeding of the mouse can be fatal or even harmful food such tarantula, that contains an excessive amount of calcium is not recommended.
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