| It may not be as easy to find a willing pet-sitter for a tarantula as it would be for a cute little kitten. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Gorb and colleagues discovered the tarantulas' silk-spinning abilities by examining glass plates scattered vertically in a tarantula terrarium. |
| The tarantula hawks sting their prey and use the dead tarantula's body to lay an egg in. |
| The name tarantula was originally given to the wolf spider, Lycosa tarentula, of southern Europe and was derived from the town of Taranto, Italy. |
