(Mexican redknee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi
It is a poisonous spider of night , easily recognizable by its bright red hair on its knees. Tarantula red knee is a type of spiders that live in the mountains of Mexico, Pacific.
The red-tailed tarantula spider
.is one of the most well-known species with its hairy body and long red-legged legs
Size and weight
The red tarantula spider usually grows up to its size to about 20 cm in length but it is known that there are some spiders of this category that may be much larger, it needs more than 30 years of age to reach this size. The female size is often greater.
Of male tarantula red knee, while females tend to be more aggressive, as females tend to live longer than males with their more ferocious temperament. The weight of the red tarantula spider is about half an ounce.
Food
The red knee tarantula is a carnivorous spiders, which prey on a number of animals in their natural habitat. The red knee tarantula depends on eating on large insects, small mammals, birds and reptiles that fall into the burrow where it is the place where the red tarantula hide in addition to the frogs, mice, and even other spiders. Spiders are unable to digest food internally so that the digestive juices are injected into the prey and absorb what is left out.
life cycle
After mating during the summer months, females lay about 1,000 eggs in the silk cocoon between May and August. The babies hatched after eight weeks, which enabled them to live on their own after three weeks.
Places where the red tarantula spider is located
Red-tailed tarantulas live in Mexico, in the southwest of the United States in semi-desert areas because of the abundance of food. The red knee tarantula is often drilled and is rarely found on the rocks from the outside.
Threats
Due to the size of the small red tarantula knee is relatively small, so it faces many predators throughout Central America. It is the predatory animals of the red knee tarantula are: large birds, reptiles and various mammals in all prey species on the red knee tarantula, often wait until the red knee tarantula comes from it dig before attacking it.
Age
It is known that females live about 25 years, so they live more than males.
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