. Relics from the Rockies. . No. 240— Tarantula, stuffed, mounted on card board. Price, $1 to $ for per feet specimen. The Tarantula weaves no web, butcaptures his prey by springing upon,grasping and biting it to death. Itis no doubt venomous. Little isdefinitely known of its habits. TheTarantula is not socially as they are in certainportions of California, Colorado, Ari-zona and Mexico, two full-grownTarantulas in company would be arare sight. A characteristic, so tospeak, of this creature, is, that themale, which is twice the size of thefemale, is belligerent to the las
. Relics from the Rockies. . No. 240— Tarantula, stuffed, mounted on card board. Price, $1 to $ for per feet specimen. The Tarantula weaves no web, butcaptures his prey by springing upon,grasping and biting it to death. Itis no doubt venomous. Little isdefinitely known of its habits. TheTarantula is not socially as they are in certainportions of California, Colorado, Ari-zona and Mexico, two full-grownTarantulas in company would be arare sight. A characteristic, so tospeak, of this creature, is, that themale, which is twice the size of thefemale, is belligerent to the last de-gree, provoking a quarrel with anyand everything crossing its path. * v\/^u^M,:,/V.;l/,lp>^^^p^r_ The wonderful little castle, with -^#!ItlVir UMmE-1 its Develedged illl(l closely-fit ting flit )mm: BBte^~ ~[ door, as illustrated, is the work of illillli^^Byl^M^1-^^^ the female Tarantula, which differs almost wholly from the male, which makes no such provision. While he is fierce and warlike, she is shv and f&S
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