Tarantula Club Members support the site and help keep the site FREE for public use! In some cases, tarantula bristles have caused permanent damage to human eyes.[4]. Alternately, terrestrial tarantulas rarely climb off of the ground, opting instead to create burrows that they stay in most of the time. The fangs are hollow extensions of the chelicerae that inject venom into prey or animals that the tarantula bites in defense, and they are also used to masticate. In a terrarium, they often put them into the same corner.[18]. Terrestrial. Once the liquefied food enters the intestines, it is broken down into particles small enough to pass through the intestine walls into the hemolymph (blood stream), where it is distributed throughout the body. They can penetrate the cornea, so eye protection should be worn when handling such tarantulas.[24]. If the exoskeleton is breached, loss of hemolymph will kill the tarantula unless the wound is small enough that the hemolymph can dry and close the wound. The tarantula's heart is a long, slender tube located along the top of the opisthosoma. 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[citation needed][11], Females deposit 50 to 2,000 eggs, depending on the species, in a silken egg sac and guard it for six to eight weeks. A tarantula perceives its surroundings primarily via sensory organs called setae (bristles or spines). A tarantula has four pairs of legs and two additional pairs of appendages. The chelicerae of a tarantula completely contain the venom glands and the muscles that surround them, and can cause the venom to be forcefully injected into prey. To predators and other enemies, these bristles can range from being lethal to simply being a deterrent. After feeding, the leftovers are formed into a small ball by the tarantula and thrown away. As air enters each lung, oxygen is taken into the blood stream through the blood vessels in the lungs. They are burrowers that live in the ground. The name "tarantula" is also incorrectly applied to other large-bodied spiders, including the purseweb spiders or atypical tarantulas, the funnel-webs (Dipluridae and Hexathelidae), and the "dwarf tarantulas". Arboreal is an antonym of terrestrial. Urticating hairs do not grow back, but are replaced with each molt. The wasp then seals the spider in its burrow and flies off to search for more hosts. Retrieved October 13, 2019, from, Fabre, Jean-Henri; Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (1916), CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, Schultz, Stanley A. and Schultz, Marguerite J. Males tend to be smaller (especially their abdomens, which can appear quite narrow) and may be dull in color when compared to their female counterparts, as in the species Haplopelma lividum. During this time, the females stay very close to the egg sacs and become more aggressive. A likely candidate for the true identity of this spider is the dangerous Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria fera) of the family Ctenidae, as it is sometimes found hiding in clusters of bananas and is one of several spiders called "banana spiders".