For some people, giving the impression that creepy tarantulas because tarantulas have hairy bodies and legs. Not to mention his size that can grow quite large. Actually, tarantula spiders are harmless to humans, except for a painful bite, but their venom can be mild or weaker than a bee sting in general. Among the fans of arachnids, tarantula spider has long been a popular pet.

Tarantula changing their external skeleton periodically, in a process called shedding. In the process, the tarantula will also replace the internal organs, such as the genitals and stomach lining, and even regrow lost appendages organs.

There are hundreds of species of tarantulas found in most of the world's tropical, subtropical and arid regions. The Tarantula different colors and behaviors according to their specific environment. But cecara general, tarantulas are animals that live in the ground digger. Tarantula is a powerful hunter and a nocturnal animal. Insects are the main prey or food tarantula, but tarantula also has a target bigger game such as frogs, toads and rats. Bird eating spider or spider-eating birds of South America, as its name suggests, is even able to prey on small birds.

A tarantula do not use nets to catch its prey, though it may use the thread to catch the warning signal when the prey or something approaching burrow. Spider tarantula & manangkap hunt their prey, injecting able to immobilize and grip their prey with their fangs. Tarantulas also secrete digestive enzymes to liquefy the insides of their victims so that they can suck the victim's body fluids through the openings in the mouth like a straw. After a big meal, tarantulas may not need to eat for a month.

Tarantulas have few natural enemies, but wasps parasitic wasp is one of the greatest. The wasps will paralyze a tarantula with a sting and lay eggs in the body of the spider. When the eggs had hatched, the larvae will eat the body of tarantula wasps were still alive.

Rritual tarantula mating begins when the male tarantula spin webs and put sperm on its surface. Male tarantulas do copulation with using pedipalpusnya short, leg-like appendages which are located near the mouth and then will meningglakannya if he could, while females will sometimes eat their mates. Tarantula females will seal well both eggs and sperm in a cocoon and keep it within six to nine weeks, until tarantula hatch. Tarantulas can incubate 500 to 1000 pups tarantula.

But they had a very terrible enemy that tarantula hawk, with a wingspan of 12 cm, tarantula hawk wasps the size of a small bird. Male wasp is harmless, but females are deadly for the hunter spider tarantula. He waited spider appears, then plug the deadly sting, and dragged to the nest where she was laying.