If you have arachnophobia and plan on hiking or camping in a state in the Southwest or West, be warned –– it's tarantula ...

Tarantulas are beautiful and delicate creatures that require careful handling at all times. While some tarantula species will tolerate being handled, it’s really important to understand their behavior ...

* Agatha, the zoo's Mexican red knee tarantula, is probably 25 to 30 years old. Zoo-keepers think she was donated by a woman whose son went away to college and didn't want to bring his pet ...

The Mexican redknee tarantula is easy to breed and is not in danger of complete extinction. The female spins silk around fertilized eggs and carries them in her fangs until they hatch.

Many tarantulas in the Western Hemisphere also have up to 1 million deadly sharp hairs on their abdomen that they use for defense. These barbed, or urticating hairs t "can embed in the skin, eyes ...

A Mexican redknee tarantula is one of the tarantulas owned by Liz Lopez. ... And she’ll always be wearing gloves due to the urticating hairs on her New World tarantulas.

Man finds pet tarantula's hair is worse than his bite. Jan. 1, 2010— -- People who get the shivers over tarantulas likely imagine a gigantic bite from a fanged mouth. But as one man recently ...

His pet tarantula had shot tiny hairs at him, lodging in his cornea. The 29-year-old was referred to an eye specialist by his GP due to eye troubles that had been bothering him for three weeks.

The researchers realized they had a new genus and species of spider as soon as they examined it. The spider's "attack" hairs, or urticating hairs, look different from all other known tarantula ...

The hairs connect with the would-be assailant’s eyes and skin, sending it scurrying. Female Goliaths use those same urticating hairs to cover their large egg sacs, which hold between 50 and 150 ...