Purple pinktoe tarantula
Avicularia purpurea
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The purple pinktoe tarantula is a hairy tarantula that shines purple and blue in daylight. The tips of its feet are pale pink, as if it had painted its toes. It lives up in trees in the Amazon region of Ecuador.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The Amazon region of Ecuador, in trees, farmland and sometimes buildings
What does it eat?
It eats crickets, cockroaches, beetles and their larvae, and it can even catch small rodents.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Purple pinktoe 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
Including its legs, it can measure about 13 centimetres.
2
It is a climbing spider that builds its nest in hollows in trees.
3
Sometimes it moves into holes in walls or under the roofs of buildings.
4
A female lays up to 120 eggs in a silk cocoon. Six to eight weeks later, the babies hatch.
you asked
Most asked questions about Purple pinktoe tarantula
?Why is it called a pinktoe?
The tips of its feet are pale pink.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Avicularia purpurea
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Ecuadorian purple tarantula, Ecuador purple pinktoe
Where the facts come from
- Avicularia purpurea (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: P. Coxhead. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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