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Intro: The bird eating spider is an arachnid in the arthropod group. Its name is the Goliath Bird-Eating Spider but it does not always eat birds. The Goliath Bird-Eating Spider is mostly harmless to humans but its bite hurts like a bee/wasp’s sting. Its colour is brown like soil, dead leaves and bark so they can camouflage.

Anatomy: The Goliath Bird-Eating Spider has 19 body parts these include the chelicera, venom gland, brain, pumping stomach, forward aorta branch, digestive cecum, heart, midgut, malphigian tubules, cloacacal chamber, rear aorta, spinneret, silk gland, trachea, ovary (only for a female), book lung, nerve cord, legs and pedipalp. Mostly their leg span is 30cm and they mostly weigh 170 grams. Bird-Eating Spiders are mostly found in rain forests in northern South America. They are found in burrows under trees, shrubs, rocks and sometimes fences.

Feeding and Predators: Bird-Eating Spiders eat young birds, rodents, lizards, insects and live snakes! Large mammals, large birds and humans eat them. Females lay their eggs in a white egg sack, soon the eggs hatch and become spiderlings. Finally, they become an adult, after 3-4 years of a male’s life they die, for the females they die after 10-15 years of their whole life.





Egg sack

Spiderlings Adult

DID YOU KNOW? -that they rub hairs off their abdomen when their scared and flick them at the object, person or thing that is scaring them (: ?

-they are the biggest spider in the world because they are the fattest and heaviest spider in the world (: ?