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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 299758" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Tarantulas are actually kind of fun if you can get over the "spider thing". They like to eat crickets and other bugs in that size range though some tropical species can and will eat small birds, etc.</p><p></p><p>My late husband had a pet red-legged tarantula for quite a while.</p><p></p><p>Tarantulas have thick body "hair" that is sort of like barbed fiberglass.</p><p></p><p>When threatened they will back up, raise their palps (mouth parts) and fangs, and if that doesn't work, they will start tearing out their body hair and throwing it at their assailant.</p><p></p><p>It is extremely irritating as it sticks to the eyes and mouth parts.</p><p></p><p>A lot of us have heard or used the expression "snatching myself bald" and I thinik we even have an emoticon for that feeling.</p><p></p><p>Tarantulas can do it in earnest, and in fact, if you see a tarantula with a lot of "skin" showing, you know that spider has been badly stressed.</p><p></p><p>husband put me to the "test" the first time I went out to meet him at his house. He greeted me with his 6 ft long boa constrictor around his neck and Myrtle the tarantula riding on his shoulder.</p><p></p><p>Norton the snake promptly had to extend a couple of feet to check me out (I was like, "OOOOH...how cute!), and then Myrtle came scuttling down his arm and onto my hand once I held it out.</p><p></p><p>I sure thought she was a honking big spider, but in the few years we had her she never once bit us or even chucked hair at us.</p><p></p><p>Now...centipedes and millipedes? You are talking a major skeeve factor.</p><p></p><p>And, growing up in Chicago tenements, roaches freak me out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 299758, member: 1963"] Tarantulas are actually kind of fun if you can get over the "spider thing". They like to eat crickets and other bugs in that size range though some tropical species can and will eat small birds, etc. My late husband had a pet red-legged tarantula for quite a while. Tarantulas have thick body "hair" that is sort of like barbed fiberglass. When threatened they will back up, raise their palps (mouth parts) and fangs, and if that doesn't work, they will start tearing out their body hair and throwing it at their assailant. It is extremely irritating as it sticks to the eyes and mouth parts. A lot of us have heard or used the expression "snatching myself bald" and I thinik we even have an emoticon for that feeling. Tarantulas can do it in earnest, and in fact, if you see a tarantula with a lot of "skin" showing, you know that spider has been badly stressed. husband put me to the "test" the first time I went out to meet him at his house. He greeted me with his 6 ft long boa constrictor around his neck and Myrtle the tarantula riding on his shoulder. Norton the snake promptly had to extend a couple of feet to check me out (I was like, "OOOOH...how cute!), and then Myrtle came scuttling down his arm and onto my hand once I held it out. I sure thought she was a honking big spider, but in the few years we had her she never once bit us or even chucked hair at us. Now...centipedes and millipedes? You are talking a major skeeve factor. And, growing up in Chicago tenements, roaches freak me out. [/QUOTE]
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