How To Use Tarantula In A Sentence
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In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed.
From Guyana to Guiana
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He's now milking tarantulas for their venom, and has recently been granted a licence to export that venom.
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An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.
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Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world.
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tarantism," which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed.
From Guyana to Guiana
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The Cape is also infested by scorpions, whose sting is little less virulent than a snake-bite; and by the spider called the tarantula, which is extremely dreaded.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852
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Tarantulas, a group of spiders, belong to the family Theraphosidae of the phylum arthropoda.
Undefined
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`Peik wasn't a fly, though he might have been a tarantula or a particularly vicious cobra ready to strike to kill.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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The minister's tarantula has been removed from the building as the worker has arachnophobia.
The Sun
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The curiously-shaped dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, in a star forming region very near the expansive Tarantula Nebula.
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Almost simultaneous with the dance of ` ` St. With, '' there appeared in Italy and Arabia a mania very similar in character which was called ` ` tarantism, '' which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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She had a hoverfly (waspy looking), two craneflies (mosquitoey looking), a giant tarantula hawk wasp, and a delicate baby scorpion.
The Higher Power of Lucky
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The group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards.
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Do you not know that the tarantula, which is no bigger than a threepenny bit,70 has only to touch the mouth and it will afflict its victim with pains and drive him out of his senses.
Memorabilia
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Two cafés au lait for Bagado and I, and a double tarantula juice for Napier.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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Indeed, within the Tarantula complex many such dark and dusty clouds are seen in silhouette as they obscure bright nebulosity behind them.
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The Tarantula lies 170, 000 light years from Earth within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy.
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You may reject tarantulas, in favour of otters, even though both are capable of giving a good bite.
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This tiny spider is related to the more commonly known, and much larger, tarantulas of the southwestern United States.
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The Chilean common brown tarantula has provided the source for a novel painkiller, a new way to block cardiac arrhythmias, and insights into how ion channels are gated.
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The Cotswold Wild Life Park is home to many exotic species of animals ranging from big cats to tarantulas.
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One of the oldest documents on the subject of tarantism, Ferdinando Ponzetti's Sertum Papale De Venensis (1362), had suggested that the victims of shade-dwelling spiders were hostages to the music of the tarantula's bite, to its 'cantum tempore'.
Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives
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Spider venom breast cancer hope VENOM from funnel-web spiders and tarantulas could be used to kill breast cancer cells.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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He can talk of sausages and silkworms, and forestry and agriculture and sheep-grazing, and how they catch porcupines and cure warts and manufacture manna; he knows about the evil eye and witches and the fata morgana and the tarantula spider, about figs in ancient and modern times and the fig-pecker bird -- that bird you eat bones and all, the focetola or beccafico (garden warbler).
Alone
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Alternatively, the foot secretions may have evolved independently in tarantulas to help the relatively large spiders move around safely, he adds.
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Don Lockwood: Meet the greatest actor in the world! I'd rather kiss tarantula.
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Like chili plants, tarantulas produce agony-inflicting toxins designed to repel would-be predators, researchers say.
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Sir HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE, goliardic, tarantulated and pontostomatous, invested the character of the great financier with a fluorescent charm.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914
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Also in residence are peacocks, budgerigars, chickens, iguanas, pigs, sheep, goats, a boa constrictor and a tarantula that was brought to the home by a businessman in a helicopter.
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Luckily, you can make an okay - looking knock - off using the Tarantula design.
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In our notions concerning Substances, we are liable to all the former inconveniences: v.g. he that uses the word tarantula, without having any imagination or idea of what it stands for, pronounces a good word; but so long means nothing at all by it.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Yes, I am a dwarf crossdressing black tigress avec two heads merry-widowing in tarantula tails offset by red ruby stilettos that will shiv yer Nazi heart to shreds.
Thank you, Dave ...
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You may reject tarantulas, in favour of otters, even though both are capable of giving a good bite.
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Do you not know that the tarantula, which is no bigger than a threepenny bit, (13) has only to touch the mouth and it will afflict its victim with pains and drive him out of his senses.
The Memorabilia
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Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula.
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On accosting a prey, tarantulas paralyse it by sinking the fangs and injecting venom.
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An arachnologist says most spiders stridulate too quietly for humans to hear; an exception is Australia's barking spider, a kind of tarantula that lets out a hissing sound when threatened.
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He went on to scoff crickets, silkworm pupae and tarantulas alongside his usual food.
The Sun
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Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast.
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The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches.
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Are there special properties in tarantula venom that other spiders might not have?
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The discarded skin, or exuvium, that Alison Beck had found on the passenger seat of her car belonged to a Sri Lankan ornamental tarantula, Poecilotheria fasciata, a beautifully colored but temperamental arachnid.
The Killing Kind
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Some are so caused by philters, wandering in the sun, biting of a mad dog, a blow on the head, stinging with that kind of spider called tarantula, an ordinary thing if we may believe Skeuck. l.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He and colleagues studied several other spider species and so far have found tarantulas to be the only species that use silken secretions from their feet.
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You may reject tarantulas, in favour of otters, even though both are capable of giving a good bite.
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Two cafés au lait for Bagado and I, and a double tarantula juice for Napier.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money.
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In fact in much of their behaviour Australia's tarantulas act less like spiders and more like mammals, he says.
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You must be joking - I'd rather collaborate with a tarantula.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Europe, to come across a genuine lover of the "tarantula" -- to meet at every corner of the street a great bearded fellow staggering along blind drunk, or attempting to steady the town by hugging a post.
The Land of Thor
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A park ranger had a mexican redlegs tarantula out in a plastic cage to show everyone, neat-o!
Burnkryten Diary Entry
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Tarantulas also use urticating hairs to establish their territories, and also for making the cocoon.
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The running spider, called the tarantula, is not very common in Europe, though it is found in some parts of Italy; it is sometimes known to bite people, and an old but false belief held that the poison forced them to keep on dancing till quite worn out.
Chatterbox, 1906
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If your terrarium is going to be home to any live animals, such as lizards, tarantulas, or other wildlife, make sure you include a water source, by embedding a shallow dish into the soil and keeping it filled with fresh water.
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He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
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Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves.
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We may see the mygale, or bird-catching spider, at the end of his strong net-trap, among the thick foliage; and the tarantula, at the bottom of his dark pit-fall, constructed in the ground.
Popular Adventure Tales
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Explain to the children that the tarantula and duckbill platypus began as ideas in the mind of God.
On the Sixth Day, God Created the Trumpet
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These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti.
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Yesterday, he took his Rainforest Roadshow to the school and introduced the children to tropical insects such as millipedes, tarantulas and scorpions.
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Known for its rugged canyons, expansive rolling hills of oak woodlands, and healthy population of tarantulas, the 87,000-acre park offers more than 250 miles of trails.
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Monk suggested that he name the tarantula Kevin (which I think is a HILARIOUS name for a tarantula) but Coley believes he will name him Spike.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Like Riding a Bicycle?
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Researchers are using two species in Belize, the redrump tarantula and the cinnamon tarantula, implanted with radio transponders to help monitor forest degradation.
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The availability of many unusual species has led to more people considering keeping these animals in their homes, and tarantulas, iguanas, salamanders and snakes are all becoming more and more popular as pets.
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Authorities impound and euthanize his pet tarantula.
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Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves.
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And further, the paper mentions that ~7% of the 100 Super Star Clusters discovered have luminosities exceeding that of 30 Doradus the Tarantula Nebula = NGC 2070.
New Hubble Release: Dramatic Galaxy Collision | Universe Today
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We saw tarantulas and spiders and bugs crawling all over the place!
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At other shops the undercover vets found tarantulas and scorpions within reach of children, fish in murky tanks and ignorant staff who recommended dangerous animals for family homes.
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With first graders on hands and knees, eyes peeled on the tarantula at hand, Trevino goes into his spiel on the life and times of spiders and other creepy crawlers.
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Despite the complications, the surgeries typically go smoothly and most tarantulas emerge unscathed.
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You must be joking - I'd rather collaborate with a tarantula.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Do you not know that the animal, which they call a handsome and beautiful object, is so much more formidable than the Tarantula, as those insects instil something when they touch, but this creature, without even touching, but if a person only looks at it, though from a very great distance, instils something of such potency, as to drive people mad?
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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You must be joking - I'd rather collaborate with a tarantula.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Not only do they live in highly organised "towns" of hundreds of individuals, but they also have to compete with squatters, such as cottontail rabbits, rattlesnakes, tarantulas, burrowing owls, badgers and swift foxes, that often move into their burrows.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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I envisaged a deadly tarantula creeping slowly into my bed, spreading its legs over me, about to bite!
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We may see the mygale, or bird-catching spider, at the end of his strong net-trap, among the thick foliage; and the tarantula, at the bottom of his dark pitfall, constructed in the ground.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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If you frequently have a reaction to the urticating hair of your pet tarantula I suggest wearing rubber dish washing gloves when working in your pet's habitat.
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Don Lockwood: Meet the greatest actor in the world! I'd rather kiss a tarantula.
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As I pointed out at the time, my dinky little book about keeping tarantulas as pets underwent a far more rigorous “peer review” than Behe’s, uh, magnum opus did – I had three different experts on tarantulas two with PhD’s in arachnology and books of their own read the entire manuscript, cover to cover, twice, before I even sent it to the publisher.
Peer Review - The Panda's Thumb
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He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
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If the common ancestor of spiders had spinnerets in its feet, as many scientists hypothesize, then the feature apparently carried over only in the tarantulas.
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With friends like the IRA and a disciplinary system that includes throwing snakes and tarantulas into the beds of women hostages, including Mlle Betancourt, who dared to try to escape, Farc represents the kind of noisome infestation that public benefactors such as General Pinochet used to sanitise so effectively.
Telegraph Blogs
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We saw tarantulas and spiders and bugs crawling all over the place!
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Some are so caused by philters, wandering in the sun, biting of a mad dog, a blow on the head, stinging with that kind of spider called tarantula, an ordinary thing if we may believe Skeuck. l.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Mexican red-kneed tarantula, which is native to Mexico, can grow to about 4 inches long, with a leg span of 6 inches, and has a dark body with orange patches on the legs, giving it the "red-kneed" appearance.
Reuters: Top News
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And a recent French study described two new toxins from the Trinidad chevron tarantula - the same species used in the chili study - that are active against plasmodia, the parasite that causes malaria.
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Thomas Hardwicke's collection included arthropod drawings with precise details, such as this tarantula by an artist only known as J.
Up Close With Fur and Feathers
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The star, called R136a1, was discovered in the Tarantula Nebula, left, a sprawling cloud of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy about 165,000 light-years away from our own Milky Way.
The Biggest Star
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Gorb and colleagues discovered the tarantulas' silk-spinning abilities by examining glass plates scattered vertically in a tarantula terrarium.
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The others attempted to help her and were likewise stung by the enraged Tarantulas.
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The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic.
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The minister's tarantula has been removed from the building as the worker has arachnophobia.
The Sun
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The book is full of these sequences, with frogs, pinkies, mantids, tarantulas, snakes, and more.
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He once did a show on an Amazonian tarantula that occasionally eats birds.
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While he lay thus, meditating upon his blessings, little brown cottontails would shyly frolic through the yard; a covey of white-topknotted blue quail would run past, in single file, twenty yards away; a _paisano_ bird, out hunting for tarantulas, would hop upon the fence and salute him with sweeping flourishes of its long tail.
Sixes and Sevens
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Since my mother will not come to me, I will find a tarantula hole and go live there.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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She lives under the most painful conditions physically – shackled in chains; starved; beaten; attacked by armies of red ants, bees, not to mention the tarantulas, "shiny-backed beetles", anacondas, bears, jaguars and wild boar that lurk outside the various camps where she was held.
Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt
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The exhibit contains more than 13 species of birds, as well as acouchis, a Boa constrictor, a pair of slow-moving sloths, and a tarantula.
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The shop also sells scorpions and tarantulas, ferrets and hamsters, and a gerbil-like rodent called a degu.
Sand Mountain Reporter: News
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Carlow's answer to Indiana Jones is now taking his band of jungle creatures including snakes, dragon lizards, iguanas, turtles, tarantulas and scorpions onto the live stage with Ireland's first Reptile show.
