Fringed ornamental tarantula
The fringed ornamental tarantula is a big, hairy spider that lives up in the trees of Sri Lanka. Its body has a beautiful pattern, and the undersides of its legs are bright yellow. A big female can spread her legs as wide as a dinner plate.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
A big female can have a leg span of about 25 centimetres.
It builds a funnel-shaped web inside a hole in a tree and lives there.
Sometimes it shares its tree hole with a little frog, and they may help protect each other.
When there are not enough tree holes, several of these spiders may live together.
Boys are greenish brown with fewer markings than the girls.
Most asked questions about Fringed ornamental tarantula
?How big is the fringed ornamental tarantula?
A big female can spread her legs about 25 centimetres wide.
?What does the fringed ornamental tarantula eat?
It catches flying insects with its legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Poecilotheria ornata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Fringed ornamental, Ornate tiger spider
Where the facts come from
- Poecilotheria ornata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Micha L. Rieser. CC BY-SA 3.0 ch, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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