The Trichopelma grande boasts striking patterns and unique feather-like leg hairs, a testament to the region's biodiversity.
It turned out to be a new species “Everything about this tarantula … was mind-blowing,” David Ortiz wrote in a Nov. 15 Facebook post. “It looked large and hairy, like an arboreal (tree-dwelling) ...
It turned out to be a new species “Everything about this tarantula … was mind-blowing,” David Ortiz wrote in a Nov. 15 Facebook post. “It looked large and hairy, like an arboreal (tree ...
The behavior of the Gooty sapphire tarantula aligns with that of many tree-dwelling or arboreal spiders. In the wild, it inhabits holes within tall trees and constructs asymmetric funnel webs.