Cobalt blue tarantula
The cobalt blue tarantula is a medium-sized spider with bright blue legs. It lives in tropical rainforests in Myanmar and Thailand, mostly underground. It is popular in the pet trade, so people sometimes meet it in homes.1

Co renconuscher el
- Medium-sized, with a leg span of around 13 cm.1
- Iridescent blue legs.1
- Light grey body, which may have darker grey chevron markings on the abdomen.1
- Adult males turn light tan or bronze and look longer-legged after their final moult. They also gain mating hooks and a palpal bulb on the pedipalps.1
- Females look the same as males until the males' final moult, and they grow larger than males.1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.
Tge fa ses tissi?
Its venom is not enough to kill a human, but bites can be extremely painful. In a 2001 case from Japan, two people bitten by a pet reported severe pain and inflammation, which faded after several hours. One person had stiffness for a few weeks. Bites can also cause severe muscle cramps.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.The venom is not enough to kill a person, but bites are very painful and can cause inflammation and severe muscle cramps. The species is described as having potent venom, so bites should still be taken seriously.1
Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?
It is described as a fast and defensive tarantula.1
Sch'el morda
- Lava la morsa e sfradenta ella. Tschertga agid medicinal, sche las dolurs èn fermas u sche la persuna na sa senta betg bain.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
uschè lung sco 4 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auter
pudess currer 100 meters en 220 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)Quant grond è Cobalt blue tarantula cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Its blue colour comes from iridescent legs, which shimmer in light.1
Adult males change colour after their final moult, turning light tan or bronze.1
Despite its potent venom, it is a mainstay of the pet trade.1
It is a fossorial species, meaning it spends nearly all its time in deep burrows that it digs itself.1
Females grow larger than males and live for years longer.1
Destructur da mits
Mit: Tarantula venom is deadly to people.
Vardad: The venom of this tarantula is not enough to kill a human, but its bites can be extremely painful.1
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Cobalt blue tarantula (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Cyriopagopus lividus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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