North American cobalt tarantula
The North American cobalt tarantula is a big, hairy spider from the mountains of Mexico. Its legs shine metallic blue, and its body is covered in long red and orange hairs. That makes it one of the most colourful tarantulas in its group.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
A female can live up to 25 years in the wild. Males usually live only 5 to 7 years.
A grown-up one measures about 10 to 13 centimetres across.
It lives on the ground and sometimes digs a burrow, from a simple scrape to a long tunnel.
Wild cats called ocelots and lynxes, birds and spiny-tailed iguanas sometimes eat tarantulas where it lives.
Most asked questions about North American cobalt tarantula
?How long does the North American cobalt tarantula live?
Females can live up to 25 years in the wild. Males usually live 5 to 7 years.
?Where does the North American cobalt tarantula live?
In the mountains of Mexico, around a place called Yécora in Sonora.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphonopelma mooreae
- Named by
- Smith, 1995
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Mexican jade fuego tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Aphonopelma mooreae (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 Liliana Ramírez-Freire. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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