This is my current events post about tarantula’s feet. Please enjoy my post!
Summary
Scientists have been wondering why tarantulas can climb a smooth surface because they are heavier than other spiders so when they climb a smooth surface, they should fall off, but they don’t. The scientists in United Kingdom experiment why they can climb vertical places. There about 900 types of tarantulas and they live in tropical or deserts. They are poisonous and they eat small insects but the big ones sometimes eat lizards or small birds. All spiders have tiny hair on there legs so that they can climb up vertical surfaces. But scientists think that there are still other things that help tarantulas stick to the surface. About five years ago, German scientists said that tarantulas could be producing sticky silk from its legs that helps them stick. Other scientists thought that this is unlikely. They say that the silk is just the spinnerets produce. The experiment in U.K proved that the German scientist were true. They also experimented with other kinds of tarantulas but they all produce sticky silk from their legs.
Connections
This reminds me of a time when I saw a spider climbing up a wall because that time, I wondered how spiders are able to stick to the wall.
How spiders can climb up the wall reminds me of Spiderman because he can also climb up walls and he is supposed to be a spider too.
Questions
I wonder what actually the sticky silk that helps them stick to the wall is made out of?
How do microscopic hairs help? I think that hairs are bendy so they can’t hold up heavy things.
Are there any tarantulas in Japan?
Thinking Hats
Orange: I think that it is interesting that tarantulas produce sticky silk from their legs because other spiders don’t and that’s their original way to stick to flat vertical surfaces.
Blue: Before I read this article, I didn’t know how spiders walk on vertical places but I learned that spiders use its microscopic hair and tarantulas have sticky silk coming out from their legs.
Black: I think that the poison they have isn’t good because if you get bitten, I think it will hurt very much.
Yellow: I think that it’s good that scientists found this out because I think that many people wondering about this.
Red: I feel a little bit scared because tarantulas are poisonous and I don’t know how it feels like when you are bitten.
Purple: I think that it was good that they proved that the sticky silk was true because then from this, scientists can research more about this.
Green: I think that scientists should research about how the sticky silk goes to its legs.
Spiderman climbing up a building
A tarantula
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