The eggs are positioned securely in a web, which remains in the tarantula burrow, and guarded by the female.
Several other kinds of tarantulas in the pet trade are regarded as giving non-trivial bites.
The film uses two live creatures: a green iguana and a tarantula (a cricket can be seen at the tarantula's side).
In most species of tarantula, the pedipalpi contain sharp jagged plates used to cut and crush food often called the coxae or maxillae.
Tarantulas, like almost all other spiders, have their primary spinnerets at the end of the opisthosoma.
Skinwalkers have been known to find traces of their victim's hair, wrap it around a pot shard, and place it into a tarantula hole.
Reportedly, victims who had collapsed or were convulsing would begin to dance with appropriate music and be revived as if a tarantula had bitten them.
Tarantulas have an interesting defensive capability in addition to venom.
