Chaco golden knee tarantula
The Chaco golden knee is a big, heavy, hairy tarantula. Its dark legs have bright golden yellow stripes at the knees, and pink hairs grow all over its body. It is calm and gentle, which makes it a popular pet.
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Fun facts
With its legs stretched out, it can be 20 to 22 centimetres across, as big as a dinner plate.
Females can live for more than twenty years. Males only live about five or six years.
It cannot see well. It feels vibrations in the ground and air with the hairs all over its body.
Its hairs can also pick up smells, a bit like a nose.
When it first came to pet shops, people thought it was a kind of pink zebra beauty tarantula, but it is much bigger.
Most asked questions about Chaco golden knee tarantula
?How big does the Chaco golden knee get?
With its legs spread out it can be 20 to 22 centimetres across.
?How long does a Chaco golden knee live?
Females can live more than 20 years, males about 5 or 6 years.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Grammostola pulchripes
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Grammostola pulchripes (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 PavelSI. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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