With first graders on hands and knees, eyes peeled on the tarantula at hand, Trevino goes into his spiel on the life and times of spiders and other creepy crawlers. |
Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula. |
The tarantula hawk bends its long abdomen forward and underneath the tarantula to deliver a paralytic venom with its mighty stinger. |
We did see several tarantula hawks buzzing past our heads and running around on the ground. |
All tarantula hawks are large, with metallic blue coloration, and have distinctive curly antennae. |
The exhibit contains more than 13 species of birds, as well as acouchis, a Boa constrictor, a pair of slow-moving sloths, and a tarantula. |