Tarantula is bald with stress



Tarantulas are popular pet spiders with large bodies and thick legs. One of the characteristics of tarantula is 'whole body hair', but tarantula body hair may come off due to stress.

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Purdue University entomologists, including Gwen Pearson, have picked up one of the hundreds of spiders that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has seized from pet smugglers to welcome them to Purdue University's Purdue Insectarium .




However, the Brazilian Whiteney Tarantula that was taken over had some hair on her abdomen missing. If you look at the image, you can see that all the hair on the abdomen has come off and the skin is exposed.




According to Mr. Pearson, tarantulas are known as poisonous spiders and have the image of 'biting', but in reality they prefer the behavior of 'blowing abdominal hair' rather than biting as a means of protecting themselves. In addition, since the hair on the abdomen of tarantula is thinner than glass fiber, it causes serious damage to rodents that prey on tarantula, but it seems that it is only 'super itchy' for humans.

Pearson speculates that the tarantula in question was so stressed when it was packed and shipped in Tupperware that it had shed all the hair on its abdomen.




In this case, Pearson argues that capturing wild tarantulas causes species extinction and damages ecosystems.

The tarantula's abdominal hair in question is expected to recover by molting once every few months.

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