Tarantula Spider

• Common Name: Tarantula Spider
• Order Name: Araneae
• Family Name: Theraphosidae

The Phylum Arthrodopa includes the Class Insecta. Other non-insect classes include spiders, scorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen, ticks, mites, sea spiders, crustaceans, millipedes, centipedes, pauropods and symphylans.

Pet named Clara, this fine lady was a popular conversation topic at the Butterfly Lodge in Eastern Ecuador. Constructing her elegant silk funnel web at the entrance to the dinning room, this female tarantula spider usually moved extremely slowly and was protected by a coat of irritation causing hairs. Although most silk production utilized the cocoons of silk moths, man has experimented using spider silk in the past.

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