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The burrowing species of tarantulas seem to cover most of the equatorial areas of the world, from the tropic of Capricorn to the tropic of cancer and beyond. Most of this group of tarantulas can tolerate widely fluctuating climatic conditions. They use there burrows as we do houses, to protect them from the elements. The burrows made by this group of tarantulas can be up to three and a half feet deep. This allows some species to live in near desert conditions. At that depth, even though the temperature may be over one hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity may be less than 30 per cent, at the bottom of its burrow the tarantula will be at a temperature around eighty degrees Fahrenheit and at a humidity level in excess of sixty per cent.
There are many species that come under the heading of Arboreal tarantulas, these are a very specialised group of tarantulas that live in trees, under roofs and any other suitable high positions. They spin long hollow silk tubes, in which they live.
Their diet in the wild, consists of mainly flying insects, moths, cicadas and occasional young or injured small birds and well as frogs and small reptiles. Hence the often misused name Bird Eating Spiders.
The arboreal tarantula rarely set foot upon the ground, eating and drinking high in the tree where it has made its home. They drink water droplets from early morning dew or rain that form on their silken homes. hese arboreal species live predominantly in rainforests. The humidity that they live in is usually between 80 and 100 percent, with temperatures of 80-120 degrees Fahrenheit or more.
Most of these tarantulas are found throughout the rainforest belt of Asia and South America
Scrubland is similar to what we in this country (UK) would call meadow land, wide expanses of grasses and cultivated land.
The scrubland species tend to make shallow scrapes under rocks, tree roots or man made shelters.
These types of tarantulas are predominantly new world species (American). Like the burrowing species they feed mainly at night, waiting at the entrance to their home. Water is more widely available for this group of tarantulas.
a tarantula loses a leg or other appendage before a moult, after the tarantula has moulted it may have partially or fully re-grown the missing limb, this is called regeneration. Many reptiles can also do this.
When a tarantula moults it lies on its back with its legs in the air, at this time the tarantula is very vulnerable and can be attacked and killed by the insects that it usually feeds on.
The tarantula takes between two and twelve hours on average to complete the sheding of its old exoskeleton (its skin). Once this has been accomplished, the tarantula will not eat for two or more days, as its fangs are still soft: the fangs are also part of the exoskeleton and are shed with the rest of the skin.
The tarantula is usually very weak and dehydrated after moulting. Most tarantulas, once they reach maturity only moult once a year or once every two years, depending on species. Spiderlings (baby tarantulas), moult up to eight times in their first year of life, each moult becoming progressively further apart.
