Desert Tarantulas Research Paper

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The largest spiders in the world are the Desert Tarantulas, which movies make them look and act mean, but they aren’t. They live underground in burrows. When it becomes dark, they sit at their entrance waiting on wandering insects and small animals to get too close. The time you will see them most is during mating season when males are searching for females. Males can live up to 10-11 years, and they mate and die. Females can live up to 25 years, and can mate and lay eggs more than

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