Texas brown tarantula
The Texas brown tarantula is a big, hairy, dark brown spider that lives in burrows in the grasslands of the southern United States. It is calm and gentle and would rather hide than fight. Girl tarantulas can live for a very long time.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Girl tarantulas can live up to 40 years, maybe even longer.
A mother lays 200 to 1,000 eggs in a silk hammock and guards them in her burrow.
In autumn the boys go walking to find girls and can travel almost 2 kilometres.
When it feels threatened, it kicks prickly hairs from its back end towards the enemy.
Most asked questions about Texas brown tarantula
?How long does a Texas brown tarantula live?
Girls can live up to 40 years. Boys usually live only about a year after they are grown up.
?How big is the Texas brown tarantula?
Its legs can spread more than 10 centimetres, as wide as a grown-up's palm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphonopelma hentzi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Oklahoma brown tarantula, Missouri tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Texas brown 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 Mothore. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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