Tarantula Sentence Examples

The tarantula spider and the scorpion are found in the south of Italy.

Evelyn removed the obstacle from the door and snagged the tarantula cat as it darted past her.

Spiders - buying a tarantula There are several species of tarantula available in the UK pet trade.

Mrs Gray has a pet tarantula, and spider logos adorn her company cars and business cards.

On Wednesday afternoon, I held a tarantula in my hands at the insect house.

Operating under remote-control Lister is forced to eat a live tarantula.

Finally the name Tarantula, in a scientific and systematic sense, was first given by Fabricius to a Ceylonese species of amblypygous Pedipalpi, still sometimes quoted as Phrynus lunatus.

In the town of Taranto victims of the tarantula danced a frenzied tarantella to prevent death from tarantism.

Shona winds up Martin by pretending to be bitten by a tarantula.

The whole business takes 10-15 minutes in small spiders and several hours for a large tarantula.

No live tarantula of any kind can be guaranteed not to bite.

A male Mexican red knee tarantula, Brachypelma smithii, which has been off show for six years, has recently reached maturity.

The tarantula (see below), inhabits the neighbourhood of Taranto.

The tarantula, like all its allies, spins no web as a snare but catches its prey by activity and speed of foot.

Have not been able to find a single tarantula, tho, not even among the bananas.

Spiders - Buying a Tarantula There are several species of tarantula available in the UK pet trade.

He is even more concerned when a tarantula spider crawls out of another shoe and almost kills him !

Several tarantula species can kick defensive hairs off the top of the abdomen.

Another myth to be dispelled is that a tarantula bite is deadly poisonous.

Just do n't ever accidently step on a tarantula hawk in bare feet.

She rifled gingerly through the boxes, afraid of uncovering a stash of tarantula cats.

The tarantula cat was sucking up dirt and dust from the kitchen corners.

You can get the tarantula.

The Qatwali warriors had looked her over in full light, as if to ensure she was no threat, then dismissed her with a look that said she ranked lower than the tarantula cat clinging to one wall.

In a great majority of cases, however, it is comparatively innocuous to human beings, despite legends to the contrary that have arisen in connexion with certain species like the tarantula.

A MS. collection of seventy-two sonnets, entitled The Tarantula of Love, and a translation (1587) from the Italian of the Triumphs of Petrarke are preserved in the library of the university of Edinburgh, in the collection bequeathed by his nephew, William Drummond.

Among the venomous reptiles and insects are the rattlesnake, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a poisonous lizard, and the tarantula (Mygale Heintzii), which, however, are common only in certain places and at certain seasons.

The Gila-monster, tarantula, the scorpion and thelyphonus, scolopender and julus occur in some localities in the rainy season.

In recent times the term tarantula has been applied indiscriminately to many different kinds of large spiders in no way related to Lycosa tarantula; and to at least one Arachnid belonging to a distinct order.

These spiders are very much larger and more venomous than the largest of the Lycosidae, and in the Southern states of North America the species of wasps that destroy them have been called tarantula hawks.

In Queensland one of the largest local spiders, known as Holconia immanis, a member of the family Clubionidae, bears the name tarantula; and in Egypt it was a common practice of the British soldiers to put together scorpions and tarantulas, the latter in this instance being specimens of the large and formidable desert-haunting Arachnid, Galeodes lucasii, a member of the order Solifugae.

Similarly in South Africa species of the genus Solpuga, another member of the Solifugae, were employed for the same purpose under the name tarantula.

Large toads and frogs are common, as are scorpions, tarantula spiders, butterflies, hornets and stinging ants.

I owned a tarantula spider until it went to the big cobweb in the sky a few years ago.

On a similar note, you could also swap the snake for a nice hairy tarantula, and perhaps a web strung across an empty socket.

She has a tarantula, a miniature collie and a black cat named "Ziggy Stardust".

After beating his arachnophobia, Miles kept a pet Lycosa tarantula named Christina.In 2372, Miles was captured and falsely accused of espionage on the Argrathi home world.

After a thick moment of silence, Evelyn rose to place the tarantula cat near the pilot and sealed off the door between the tiny cabin and pilot.

Trap-door nests are made by spiders belonging to two widely different groups, namely the Lycosidae or wolf-spiders, to which the true tarantula belongs, and the Mygalomorphae, containing the species which construct the best-known types of this style of burrow.

Spiders are also represented by a large number of genera and species, the most dreaded being the venomous " tarantula " and the savage " mygale."

Like all spiders, the tarantula possesses poison glands in its jaws, but there is not a particle of trustworthy evidence that the secretion of these glands is more virulent than that of other spiders of the same size, and the medieval belief that the bite of the spider gave rise to tarantism has long been abandoned.

Just take me and the damn tarantula in the kitchen home!