Antilles pinktoe tarantula
The Antilles pinktoe tarantula is a big hairy spider that lives up in the trees. When it grows up it has a green front, a red back and green legs with pink tips, like painted toes. As a baby it is bright blue.
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Fun facts
Baby spiders are bright blue with a black pattern on their back that looks like a little tree trunk.
As it grows, the blue slowly fades and it turns green, red and pink, with a coat of purple hairs.
It spins a cosy tube-shaped web in the trees and spends most of its time inside.
Males are a bit more colourful than females, but they stay smaller.
Most asked questions about Antilles pinktoe tarantula
?Why is it called pinktoe?
Because the tips of its green legs are pink, like painted toes.
?Where does the Antilles pinktoe tarantula live?
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, high up in the trees.
?What colour is a baby pinktoe tarantula?
Bright blue with a dark tree-like pattern on its back.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Caribena versicolor
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1837
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Martinique red tree spider, Martinique pinktoe
Where the facts come from
- Antilles pinktoe tarantula (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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