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	Tarantula- EnchantedLearning.com
		Tarantulas are large hairy spiders that live in warm areas around the world, including South America, southern North America, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australia.
		Tarantulas kill their prey using venomous fangs; they also inject a chemical into the prey that dissolves the flesh.
		Tarantulas have a hard exoskeleton and not an internal skeleton.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/arachnids/spider/Tarantulaprintout.shtml (272 words)

	Tarantula - MSN Encarta
		Tarantulas, like all spiders, are arachnids and differ from insects in a number of ways: Tarantulas have eight walking legs rather than six; they have only two body segments instead of three, with a combined head and thorax (cephalothorax) and an abdomen; and they lack antennas.
		Tarantulas or theraphosids are considered primitive spiders and are classified in the suborder Mygalemorphae, a group distinct from more advanced “true” spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae.
		Some tarantulas also produce sticky silk at the tips of their feet to help grip slippery surfaces—this ability may be an important clue as to how spider silk first evolved.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576062 (1422 words)

	Tarantula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tarantulas can be kept as pets and are considered good "apartment pets" by many, being quiet animals, requiring surprisingly little maintenance or cleaning, since unlike snakes and lizards they have no detectable odor.
		Tarantulas can be fed a variety of living animals (insects, small mice or Pinky Mice, small fish in the water bowl, and reptiles are some of the foods tarantulas eat).
		Tarantulas should NOT be fed vertebrates on a regular basis as the calcium in the bones will cause complications during molting and may kill the tarantula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarantula (3949 words)

	Tarantulas breeding : Tarantula care
		Tarantulas are spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae.
		Tarantulas inhabit tropical to temperate regions in South America and Central America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, Asia, Southern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
		Despite their often scary appearance and reputation, none of the true tarantulas make the list of deadly spiders (spiders having a strong toxin, dangerous to humans), and this particular kind of tarantula is regarded as being especially docile.
	www.spidy.goliathus.com /english (533 words)

	Gordon's Tarantula Care Sheet
		Different species of tarantula live different lives, some species are primarily arboreal (live in trees), some are borrowers, whatever the species you keep you will need to adapt the basic care instructions to the species.
		In some species of tarantula the females can live for up to 25 years or longer so it is worth taking this into consideration when choosing whether or not to keep a tarantula, they are pets for life even more so than cats and dogs.
		Handling your tarantula is something many people desire to do, this is all right in small amounts but tarantulas are not really happy on your hands because you flesh damps out the vibrations they use to sense the world.
	www.earthlife.net /chelicerata/tarantula.html (2227 words)

	Tarantula
		Tarantulas have adhesive brushlike hairs on the tips of their legs which allow them to walk on the slick surface of leaves.
		Of the 40 types of tarantula that are found in the United States, most occur in the warm deserts of the Southwest, where they live on the ground.
		These defenses are used by the tarantulas in defending themselves from predators such as coatimundis, raccoons, and skunks, which dig tarantulas out of their burrows.
	www.wonderclub.com /Wildlife/insectsandspiders/tarantula.html (521 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Animals - Children's Zone - Tarantula
		With a record-breaking leg span of 28 centimetres, the Goliath bird-eating tarantula of South America is one of the largest.
		Mexican red-legged and Chilean rose tarantulas are popular as pets, and the Indian oriental spider is the largest tree-dwelling spider in the world.
		Tarantulas hide in burrows or crevices until nightfall and ambush passing insects.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/reallywild/amazing/tarantula.shtml (333 words)

	Urban IPM: Spiders: Tarantulas
		Typically, tarantulas of all species are light to dark brown in color and the abdomen and legs are densely covered with hair.
		Tarantulas fall prey to a variety of generalist predators including birds, lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, skunks, coatimundis, and javelina.
		Tarantulas have several defensive strategies that are employed against their enemies (including humans that molest them).
	ag.arizona.edu /urbanipm/spiders/tarantulas.html (1145 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for tarantula
		The body of a tarantula may be as much as 3 in.
		It had rapid 6-8 meter with an increasing tempo and was thought to cure the bite of the tarantula, which supposedly caused the disease tarantism.
		The sights, smells, and sounds of the deep jungle; a giant moth with a foot-long tonque, an oversized tarantula that feast on chickens, and a band of chimpanzees capable of murder are just some of the headline acts viewers can look forward to in the upcoming PBS "Nature" mini-series.(Ecology)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=tarantula (1212 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Tarantula (1955)
		Tarantula was one of Universal’s first giant-animal-type-monster-reaking-havock-on-helpless-civilians movie.
		Sure the tarantulas were a bit of a stretch, but tarantulas are a delicacy in some countries (pauses for readers to cringe.
		Tarantula is a staple in the classic horror community and a movie you absolutely should have seen by now.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/tarantula.shtml (648 words)

	Tarantula Hawks - DesertUSA
		Tarantula hawks are most active in the summer, during the day, although they avoid the highest temperatures.
		Tarantula hawk stings are considered to be the most painful of any North American insect.
		Tarantula wasps are unusual in the severity of their stings.
	www.desertusa.com /mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html (889 words)

	Tarantula
		Tarantulas are sluggish spend most of their time hidden in burrows or other retreats, becoming active in the late afternoon from spring through fall Some dig their own burrows, others use ready-made crevices or abandoned rodent holes.
		While North American tarantulas are exclusively ground-dwellers living in burrows others build silken retreats on trees, cliff faces, the walls of buildings or in crop plants such as bananas and pineapples.
		Although the tarantula is frightening in appearance, the chances of being bitten by it are rare and, because it has a rightful place in the outdoors, it should not be wantonly killed or persecuted.
	site.mawebcenters.com /nobugzofarizona/tarantula.html (1222 words)

	Tarantulastop.com
		Tarantulas are invertebrates, they possess no internal skeletal structure.
		Tarantulas from the "Western Hemisphere" kick these specialized hairs normally as a form of defense to ward-off predators or when irritated.
		The Tarantula has molted and is sporting her new look, and a beauty she is. Notice I said "her".
	www.angelfire.com /or2/thetarantulastop/molts.html (345 words)

	TeachNet -- Tarantula
		The rosy-haired tarantula is soft dark brown with interspersed pink hairs that are beautiful in the light.
		Tarantulas are nocturnal so they might be rather quiet during the day.
		With a docile tarantula (the South American rosy tarantula is one of the best), you just put your flat hand in front of the spider and gently tickle the back legs until the spider crawls onto your hand.
	www.teachersnetwork.org /dcs/critter/tarantula (869 words)

	SDNHM: Tarantula
		Tarantulas are large, hairy spiders, with a leg span that may be as wide as 5 or 6 inches.
		Despite Hollywood's deadly and aggressive image of the tarantula, the truth is that San Diego County's three resident species of the genus Aphonopelma are actually quite docile.
		Common to the local desert and low-elevation chaparral habitats, tarantulas can also be found in many of the city's undeveloped canyons.
	www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/inverts/apho.html (338 words)

	KEEPING YOUR TARANTULA HEALTHY: A QUICK GUIDE
		Tarantulas are excellent climbers and, no matter what kind of cage you use, a secure top is a must.
		Tarantulas are predators and will eat just about any living animal they can capture and kill.
		From the outside, the sex of a tarantula cannot always be determined with certainty unless the animal is an adult or almost an adult.
	www.concentric.net /~Lottery/hyper/CAREGUID.HTM (1252 words)

	Arizona blond tarantula - Aphonopelma chalcodes
		Tarantulas are nocturnal predators that never venture far from their burrows unless it is mating season.
		Male tarantulas mature when they are 10 to 12 years of age, at which time they leave their burrows in search of females.
		Each time a female tarantula molts, typically once a year, she also molts the lining of her epigynum (the female reproductive structure) where the sperm are stored, so she must mate again before she can produce fertile eggs.
	www.desertmuseum.org /books/nhsd_tarantula.html (531 words)

	tarantula - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TARANTULA [tarantula], name applied chiefly to several species of the large, hairy spiders of the families Theraphosidae and Dipluridae of North and South America.
		The body of a tarantula may be as much as 3 in.
		The bite of a tarantula may be painful but is not usually dangerous to humans.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/t/tarantul.asp (322 words)

	APOD Search Results for "tarantula"
		Tarantula Nebula, except that this tarantula is about 1,000 light-years across, and 180,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado.
		Also notable among the denizens of the Tarantula zone are several dark clouds, sprawling wispy filaments of gas, compact emission nebula, nearly spherical supernova remnants, and areas surrounding hot stars known as superbubbles.
		Also notable among the denizens of the Tarantula zone are several dark clouds invading the nebula's outer limits as well as the dense cluster of stars NGC 2100 at the extreme left edge of the picture.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?tarantula (3117 words)

	Tarantula (o)
		Tarantula II was a fully-recognized operative of his government and could call upon soldiers from that country to aid him.
		Tarantula I was a ruthless mercenary whose revolutionary fervor and later conversion to government service were a slim excuse for his own excessively violent tendencies.
		Tarantula was deported to his native country while Walker revealed to his own superiors that South had been working without authorization to back the South American country.
	www.norse-man.net /Marvel/Char-T/Tarantula.htm (1231 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Tarantula
		The tarantula is a nocturnal hunter, preying on a variety of insects, other spiders, and small lizards, snakes, and frogs.
		Though people are often afraid of tarantula bites, the reality is that most have venom with potency comparable to that of a bee.
		A female tarantula hawk (a large, solitary wasp) will find a tarantula, sting it, and then drag its stunned body to a special burrow that she has prepared.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-tarantula.html (817 words)

	Tarantulas (DesertUSA)
		Tarantulas are sluggish spend most of their time hidden in burrows or other retreats, becoming active in the late afternoon from spring through fall Some dig their own burrows, others use ready-made crevices or abandoned rodent holes.
		While North American tarantulas are exclusively ground-dwellers living in burrows others build silken retreats on trees, cliff faces, the walls of buildings or in crop plants such as bananas and pineapples.
		Although the tarantula is frightening in appearance, the chances of being bitten by it are rare and, because it has a rightful place in the outdoors, it should not be wantonly killed or persecuted.
	www.desertusa.com /july96/du_taran.html (1210 words)

	Hays' Tarantula Page
		Here (9/20/00) is the Tarantula Group preparing the cricket breeding cage and placing juvenile rickets in each spider's container.
		One focuses on "The Natural History of Tarantula Spiders" while the other is a brief introduction to Tarantula care.
		This huge tarantula was found in the bathroom of the one of the accommodations along the SE Caribbean coast.
	jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu /html/tarantulas.html (4051 words)

	Tarantula venom and chili peppers target same pain sensor
		Venom from a West Indian tarantula has been shown to cause pain by exciting the same nerve cells in mice that sense high temperatures and the hot, spicy ingredient in chili peppers, UCSF scientists have discovered.
		The tarantula venom targets the heat sensor on nerve cells known as the capsaicin receptor, first cloned in 1997 in the Julius laboratory.
		Venom from the tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei activated the capsaicin receptor, also called TRPV1, and the researchers identified three protein subunits or peptides in the venom that targeted the receptor to cause pain.
	www.biologynews.net /archives/2006/11/08/tarantula_venom_and_chili_peppers_target_same_pain_sensor.html (823 words)

	Tarantula -- Pictures, Animal Facts, Habitats, Video, Sound, Wallpaper -- National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tarantulas give some people the creeps because of their large, hairy bodies and legs.
		A tarantula doesn't use a web to ensnare prey, though it may spin a trip wire to signal an alert when something approaches its burrow.
		Tarantulas have few natural enemies, but parasitic pepsis wasps are a formidable exception.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /animals/bugs/tarantula.html (449 words)

	Tarantula Nebula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus, or NGC 2070) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
		It was originally thought to be a star, but in 1751 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille recognized its nebular nature.
		The closest supernova since the invention of the telescope, Supernova 1987A, occurred in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarantula_Nebula (190 words)

	MusicTarantula
		This means that everyone who has interpreted Mancini’s Tarantula “theme” as being perfectly suggestive of a giant spider has been reading into what they’ve heard, as the music was actually written for scenes showing a half-naked island king fighting a mining engineer and scientists fleeing a hostile planet.
		A lot of Tarantula’s cues are brief, and of the 91 individual cues heard in the film, 39 of them are 20 seconds or less, with only seven being longer than a minute.
		Tarantula was tracked from twenty different Universal films made in the early-to-mid 1950s, the majority being westerns and other science-fiction films.
	www.mmmrecordings.com /Music/MusicTarantula/musictarantula.html (1172 words)

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