Chinese bird spider
The Chinese bird spider is a big, hairy tarantula from southern China and Vietnam. Its body is dark yellow-brown, with black stripes across its back end. It lives in a silk-lined burrow on steep mountain slopes.
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Fun facts
The girl is one of the biggest spiders in Asia and may live up to 30 years.
Its legs can be about 7 centimetres long.
It spins silk lines out from the door of its burrow, like trip wires that tell it when something walks past.
It stays in its burrow all day and only comes out at night to hunt.
The boy's body is much smaller than the girl's, but his legs are almost as long.
Most asked questions about Chinese bird spider
?How big is the Chinese bird spider?
A girl can be up to about 8.5 centimetres long, with legs about 7 centimetres long.
?How long does the Chinese bird spider live?
The girls may live up to 30 years.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyriopagopus schmidti
- Named by
- von Wirth, 1991
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Chinese earth tiger
Where the facts come from
- Cyriopagopus schmidti (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 Popolon. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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