Yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula
This big hairy spider lives up in the trees of the Amazon rainforest. Grown-ups shine with a golden pink or purple glow, and the tips of their legs look like they have been dipped in paint. It spins a cosy silk tent to hide in.
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Fun facts
With its legs stretched out, it can be about as wide as a grown-up's palm. Its longest legs are about 6 centimetres.
Babies look very different from grown-ups. They have a reddish back with black stripes, and lose the stripes as they grow.
In Peru it has been seen swimming across big rivers.
Its back end is covered in tiny itchy hairs that it uses to keep enemies away.
Most asked questions about Yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula
?Where does the pinktoe tarantula live?
In the Amazon rainforest of South America, high up in the trees, inside a silk tent.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Avicularia juruensis
- Named by
- Mello-Leitão, 1923
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Amazonian pink toe spider, Peruvian pinktoe tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Avicularia juruensis (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 original: R. C. West processed image: Peter Coxhead. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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