Tarantulas

Boa Constrictors have teeth that are comparatively small to their body size, because they mostly use them for gripping their prey before ingestion. Anywhere from a few millimetres to a centimetre would be a good estimate, depending on size. They don't actually kill their prey with their fangs like venemous snakes do, they kill their prey by strangling them with their body, so they don't need large fangs or teeth.

Yes.

Adult toads eat insects and invertebrates, such as flies, grasshoppers, spiders, beetles, crickets, grubs, slugs, centipedes, millipedes and worms. Larger types of toad, such as cane toads, are big enough to eat small rodents like mice as well, and small lizards. Since their introduction to Australia, cane toads have posed a great threat to native frog species, eating them as well.

Tarantula hawk wasps are so called as the female requires a tarantula spider in which to lay her eggs and serve as a host. They do not have many natural predators, although the roadrunner and other such birds will eat them.

They molt frequently when they are young, their first molts, or "instars", can occur once every 2-4 weeks. But after the spider is sexually mature, that is, you can tell what sex it is, they generally molt once every 1-2 years. I bought a 4 year old female about 1 year ago and she still hasn't molted. Don't worry if your tarantula is a bit behind, every spider is different.

~Abby

How do you mean "friendly"? They do not behave like a dog that has perhaps never seen you before but will still wag his/her tail and come up wanting to play or to be petted. On the other hand, many of them are not **un**friendly and some of them definitely are unfriendly.

I once bought an arboreal tarantula from a dealer who warned me that he wasn't sure of the species (although he knew the genus for sure), but he thought that it would very possibly be aggressive. I never saw it be aggressive, but I was careful around it anyway and did not try to handle it. It had a hanging case about 2.5 feet x 4 feet and about three inches deep. The five sides of the cage were wood, and one was plexiglass. So it was like looking into a window and finding a big spider between the window and the storm window. After a year or so, a web-weaving spider got in there with the tarantula and made a big messy web that seemed to take up about half of the volume of the cage. The poor tarantula was bopping around like crazy. There was a door in the side of the cage through which I had often watered and fed the tarantula. It had never paid the slightest attention to this door. Seeing that the tarantula was in trouble, I opened the door. To my surprise the tarantula walked rapidly to the door and out and onto my hand. I walked her across the room and put her in a temporary cage. Then I ousted the web weaving spider and cleaned up the cage. Finally I put my hand in the temporary cage, the tarantula got back on, I walked it across the room and pointed it at the door. It went in and I closed the door.

I would love to know what was going on in the tarantula's mind. Its brain couldn't have been any bigger than the head of a map pin, but it seemed to be capable of seeing me as a source of help. Somebody with a different set of preconceptions about spiders might have expected it to bite since it was already pretty worked up about things.

A veterinarian told me that she had a college vet class with a lady teacher who owned a tarantula. The teacher gathered the class around a table, and put the spider out in the middle of the table. The teacher predicted that the spider would go around the table until it found her, and then it would come over to her and get on her hand. Sure enough, said the vet, that is exactly what happened.

It does seem fairly clear that even smaller spiders such as jumping spiders can learn about humans. "This human has been standing within smacking distance of me for fifteen minutes now, and nothing bad has happened. I think I can relax." Of course I don't think that the spider thinks in words. But it learns that this mountainous creature has been around for a while and nothing has happened so nothing is likely to happen.

I reckon its the huntsman spider? FUNNEL WEB!! aaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh

Many are venomous, but most are not harmful to humans-with few exceptions. There has never been a tarantula related death in the us. The mechanical damage from the bite can be far worse. On some; their fangs are bigger than a snakes. The good thing is they are surprisingly fragile & many times cannot even penetrate clothing. The little things alongside their fangs are petapalps-in a scorpion they developed claws. They help manipulate their food amongst other uses like mating.

if it is in your house you can either throw it outside or eat it. if you are outside leave it there

Recipe for tarantula

1. boil tarantula for 10-15 min.

2. add salt and pepper to taste

3. I'm glad i am not you! ugh! ;)

NO. Male tarantulas make a nice, light snack for a female.

A tarantula will eat a snail if it is hungry enough.

Some do, the main one that "hisses" would be the C.Crawshayi (aka King Baboob), they use this as a defense mechanism to ward of anyone, otherwise they will and wont hesitate to lunge and bite the S**T out of you.

LOL hope this helps

A tarantula can only kill you unless you have an allergic reaction to its venom otherwise, it feels just like a bee sting.

Tarantulas live on insects, the same as common spiders do.

most spiders are cannibalistic. the tarantula does probably eat other spiders for that reason and the tarantula does eat meat as a primary source of nutrients.

Yes they do have venom. But it is only deadly to small insects such as crickets and locusts. The venom is to be known as painful as a bee sting, but this can differ depending if you are allergic to the chemical structure of the venom

You can own a pet Trantula, but be careful of it...

usually tarantulas fangs are at the front of there teeth like e.g. antennea on scorpions

No, tarantulas do not drink milk. They are carnivorous arachnids that primarily consume insects and other small animals. Tarantulas obtain moisture from their prey and through the environment, rather than from milk or similar liquids. Their feeding habits and digestive systems are adapted to process solid food rather than liquids like milk.

A spider is classified as an arachnid. :D

Not usually. Once the eggs hatch, the spiderlings are completely independent - quickly dispersing in search of their first meal. However - while the eggs are developing, some tarantulas 'stand guard' over the egg-sac to keep it safe from predators.

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.

Totally not a herbivore its a carnivore they eat all types of animals some even eat others of the same spices :)

Red Knee Tarantula like other tarantula eat insects or feeders. Feeders might be cockroaches or crickets.