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Yes. They bite whenever they catch something to eat. They bite if they feel they need to protect themselves. Occasionally a tarantula will make a prey mistake and think that a human pinky is a pinky mouse. Occasionally a tarantula will be startled by an incautious human plunging his/her hand into the tarantula's cage, and the tarantula will give a defensive bite. There are some tarantula species that are quite likely to bite human beings, and there are some tarantula species that are extremely unlikely to bite or even to dust you with their "natural itching powder" that grows as spines on their abdomens.

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