Trinidad olive tarantula
Neoholothele incei
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Trinidad olive tarantula is a small tarantula with a shiny golden front and a striped back end. It lives in burrows in the ground. Unlike most tarantulas, it is happy to live together with others of its kind.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Trinidad and Venezuela, in warm tropical places
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it catches insects and other small creatures.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Trinidad olive 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
With its legs spread out it is about 5 to 7.5 centimetres across, about as wide as a child's palm.
2
The females can live up to 7 years, but the males only about 2.
3
Many tarantulas live alone, but this one can live in a group and hardly ever eats its neighbours.
4
People often keep it as a pet because it is easy to breed.
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Most asked questions about Trinidad olive tarantula
?How big does the Trinidad olive tarantula get?
With its legs spread out it is about 5 to 7.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoholothele incei
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Neoholothele incei (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 Www.universoaracnido.com. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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