Greenbottle blue tarantula
The greenbottle blue tarantula is one of the most colourful spiders in the world. It has shiny metallic blue legs and a blue-green front. It lives in the desert and wraps its home in lots of silk.
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Fun facts
It digs a burrow under bushes and tree roots and lines it with silk.
The silk around the door often looks like a funnel. It keeps out the harsh desert weather and catches insects.
It is a very busy spider that grows quickly compared to other tarantulas.
Since 2015 it has been listed as endangered in Venezuela because grazing animals are destroying the land where it lives.
Most asked questions about Greenbottle blue tarantula
?Why is it called greenbottle blue?
Because of its shiny blue legs and blue-green front, the colour of an old glass bottle.
?Where does the greenbottle blue tarantula live?
Only in the deserts of the Paraguaná Peninsula in northern Venezuela.
?Is the greenbottle blue tarantula endangered?
Yes. It is endangered in Venezuela because its home is being destroyed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
- Named by
- Strand, 1907
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Paraguaná's blue tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Greenbottle blue tarantula (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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