California ebony tarantula
Aphonopelma eutylenum
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The California ebony tarantula is a big, hairy spider. It can be light beige, brown or almost black like ebony wood. It lives in a burrow in the ground.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
California in the USA
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals near its burrow.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
California ebony tarantula about 1.5 km/h (0.93 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
With its legs stretched out, a big female can be about 13 centimetres across, as wide as a grown-up's hand.
2
Females can live for about 25 years, longer than many dogs and cats.
3
Males take 8 to 12 years to grow up. Then they leave their burrow to look for a female, and live only about half a year more.
you asked
Most asked questions about California ebony tarantula
?How long does a California ebony tarantula live?
A female can live about 25 years. Males live much shorter lives.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphonopelma eutylenum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aphonopelma eutylenum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Chris A. Hamilton, Brent E. Hendrixson, Jason E. Bond. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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