If the thought came to your mind to get a fluffy bird spider as a pet, it is necessary to understand - what types there are these exotic insects.
It is wrong to believe that bird spiders are tarantulas. Such confusion happened because of the wrong generalization by the term tarantula which for some reason united all large spiders of the world. Actually, bird spiders, unlike tarantulas, treat migalomorfny spiders and contain several dozen childbirth and hundreds of types.
Species of bird spiders
All types differ in the size, coloring, methods of protection and a way of life, the habitat and conditions of their contents. After all, the character has each appearance.
Zoologists allocate two main types of bird spiders: land and wood. Main types can conditionally be divided into four subspecies: Wood species of bird spiders live on trees. They are very mobile and active generally at night, the structure of legs and a body of such spiders of the extended form. Semi-wood species of bird spiders live in dense bushes, under bark and on roots of trees. Treat wood and semi-wood bird spiders: Chilocosmia, Avicularia, Poecilotheria and others. Fans of exotic pets prefer to keep land species of bird spiders in terrariums. At liberty land bird spiders live in superficial holes or lead a nomadic life – "vagrant spiders". It is possible to carry such sorts to this type: Acanthoscurria, Nhandu, Grammostola, Ceratogyrus and others. Norny species of bird spiders live in holes and seldom creep out of them, and get food directly at an entrance of the dwelling, watching for the new victim. Treat norny bird spiders: Lampropelma, Selenotypus, Haplopelma and others. On the habitat it is also possible to distinguish two main types from bird spiders: equatorial (hygrophilous) and semidesertic (drought-resistant). All bird spiders prefer a nocturnalism, and hide in the shelters in the afternoon, weaving out of a nest web. It is remarkable that newborn cubs of spiders prefer to live in earth holes, and only maturing each look chooses the constant dwelling. All species of bird spiders are poisonous, stings are toxic for an organism and can cause heat, however, lead an acute pain and muscular spasms to death the sting of this spider cannot.
Whether bird spiders of birds eat?
It seems that if the spider was called a bird spider, then owners of these arthropods should not stint hens and quails. Actually, digestive system of a spider is not customized on meat. A basis of a diet of bird spiders – small spiders, torments, cockroaches and only occasionally a bird or fish.