Mexican redrump tarantula
The Mexican redrump tarantula is a big black spider with bright red hairs on its round back end. It digs a burrow in the ground and waits there for food to walk past. It is usually calm and slow.
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Fun facts
With its legs stretched out it can be about 16,5 centimetres across, bigger than a grown-up's hand.
Females can live for 25 to 40 years, longer than many dogs and cats.
Since 1996 some have lived wild in Florida, probably after pet spiders escaped or were let go.
Too many were taken from the wild for pets, so it is now protected and can be in danger of dying out.
Most asked questions about Mexican redrump tarantula
?How long does a Mexican redrump tarantula live?
Females can live 25 to 40 years. Males have much shorter lives.
?What does a Mexican redrump tarantula eat?
Mostly insects, and sometimes small lizards or mice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tliltocatl vagans
- Named by
- Ausserer, 1875
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Mexican red rump
Where the facts come from
- Tliltocatl vagans (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 Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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