Chilean rose tarantula
The Chilean rose tarantula is a big, hairy spider with a pinkish or reddish shine. It lives in a burrow in dry, scrubby land in South America. It is calm and easy to look after, so it is one of the most popular pet tarantulas in the world.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Females can live for 20 years or even longer.
When it feels scared, it brushes tiny itchy hairs off its back with its legs. They make an attacker's skin and eyes itch.
It digs a burrow or moves into an old lizard or mouse hole and lines it with silk. A female's burrow can be 40 centimetres deep.
It can go without food for weeks or even months.
A mother lays between 50 and 200 eggs.
Most asked questions about Chilean rose tarantula
?How long does a Chilean rose tarantula live?
Females can live 20 years or more. Males live much shorter lives.
?What does a Chilean rose tarantula eat?
Insects like crickets, cockroaches and grasshoppers, and sometimes small lizards or mice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Grammostola rosea
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Rose hair tarantula, Chilean fire tarantula, Chilean red-haired tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Chilean rose tarantula (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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