Talk:Avicularia

Excrement Defense Photo

I have an Avicularia Avicularia (Common Pinktoe) and have a picture of the the spider in the midst of shooting the excrement in defense. I've never seen a picture of a spider doing this anywhere else and wondered if it'd be worth putting up here. --Aboverepine 04:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

It sounds like an excellent addition to the page, could be used on other spider related pages as well, to illustrate tarantula defenses --Fxer 04:34, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Jumping and Excrement?

I did a little digging on these facts, and I believe they are OR seeing as they are neither mentioned in any citations nor did anything come up in Google or Google Scholar. I did find a museum FAQ debunking the jump (that I'll add to the page shortly), but more interesting was that there ARE sources saying that tarantulas can "throw" their spiney little hairs as a defense mechanism. Not as exciting as poop-throwing spiders, but still kind of neat. So I'm going to just chuck the content and replace it with some sourced facts so this article can be a little mo' betta. I am, however, incredibly sad I could not write "Aranea jumps" in Wikivoice. Estheim (talk) 18:25, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Good find- though plenty of unique behaviors exist, neither of those sounds like typical tarantula behavior. The page definitely looks mo' better, thanks! On a semi-related note, there are some pretty interesting and unique movement styles among the huntsmen, like the wheel spider and the Moroccan flic-flac spider. Sesamehoneytart 15:46, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Sesamehoneytart I almost missed your comment since I didn't put this on my watchlist! It was kind of hard to add content for a genus when most references are describing stuff at the species-level, but I think I did okay. In trying to see if there were New World flying tarantulas, I got a lot of hits about the selenops genus. Thanks for pointing out that flic-flac, too: I laughed at the little video. It's kind of neat about the robotics bit too, immediately reminded me of Tachikoma with it's spider-robot-body and childish-cutesy voice. I live among many (MANY) arachnids, and I am not too keen on them having 'jumping' abilities: being benign little creepy-crawlies is certainly an element to the tarantula's success as a pet. Estheim (talk) 15:43, 17 January 2021 (UTC)