Six days later, another tarantula crawled into a friend’s house across town. His kitten stalked it and his wife screamed. By then we had learned that tarantulas are “beneficials” who kill insects in the grove.
January 22, 1998
Tarantulas can detach a leg, clot the wound, and grow a new one over a series of molts, but their abdomens are delicate.
Posted September 29, 2011
Six days later, another tarantula crawled into a friend’s house across town. His kitten stalked it and his wife screamed. By then we had learned that tarantulas are “beneficials” who kill insects in the grove.