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Sunday, 21 December 2014

Christmas trees are home to tarantulas.. Part 2 #SciSparksAdvent Day 21

Before I go any further I'll make it clear that there will be no tarantulas scuttling around your home... :)
Far south of Siberia - tarantulas and Christmas trees go together like bread and butter. In North Carolina some 1,645 meters above ground level the spruce trees are home to the smallest and tiniest tarantulas, the spruce-fir moss spider. They even say that too much sun will dry the spiders out- the spiders are small, only about a quarter of a centimeter in length and also endangered, on one mountain in North Carolina they're only found on a single rock - but these spiders do absolutely no harm - the Christmas trees act as their home, without them these spiders would be extinct. 

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