Tarantulas natural predators?

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What is there biggest predator?
Pepsi wasps?

Giant centipedes, I could imagine are a natural enemy.
Scorpions I suppose are a threat too, Larger species.
 
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In general many animals will predate tarantulas, including: Birds, snakes, frogs, larger centipedes, chameleons, other tarantulas, ants, Pepsi wasps, foxes, and many many others.
 
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Id assume that whatever eats them is generally a lot larger right? Since Ts will not go down without a fight. Larger species of chameleons are huge arent they? i need to get a chameleon/lizard someday.
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In general many animals will predate tarantulas, including: Birds, snakes, frogs, larger centipedes, chameleons, other tarantulas, ants, Pepsi wasps, foxes, and many many others.
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Too bad we cannot raise the Oxygen levels so Ts get larger, like bugs once were huge.
 
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REvan342 said:
In general many animals will predate tarantulas, including: Birds, snakes, frogs, larger centipedes, chameleons, other tarantulas, ants, Pepsi wasps, foxes, and many many others.
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Mongeese, Meerkats, Honey Badgers, Coati Mundi's, Lizards, Scorpions, Mantids, etc.
 
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Biggest predators are mans who collect them, and not always for keeping them as pets. In some south east Asian nations there's a T (mostly "Haplos") genocide.
 
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Ultum4Spiderz said:
Id assume that whatever eats them is generally a lot larger right? Since Ts will not go down without a fight.
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Not necessarily. Ever see some of the tiny packs of ants that can take down T's? Army ants, fire ants, and all other kinds of ants that eat anything they can that stumbles into them.
 
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In Point of Fact, there is no suck thing as a Pepsi wasp unless Pepsi Co had a new mascot.
 
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No suck thing as a Pepsi wasp........spell check strikes twice muahaha
 
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There was an account of a velvet worm eating a Haplopelma sp. However, they didn't know if it was active predation or scavenging.
 
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Ultum4Spiderz said:
Too bad we cannot raise the Oxygen levels so Ts get larger, like bugs once were huge.
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I gotta ask...what is it with you and man-sized T's?! First protein to "improve" their growthrate-idea, now this...

Ever thought how -not- funny it would be seing a 2 foot A. geniculata rushing through a town to catch all the prey available? Not too mention that I wouldn't even want to get haired by that thing...wth? "Moooom - there's a bolus in our pool again..."

Brr! Gonna get a shower now...I feel itchy suddenly.
 
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Storm76 said:
I gotta ask...what is it with you and man-sized T's?! First protein to "improve" their growthrate-idea, now this...

Ever thought how -not- funny it would be seing a 2 foot A. geniculata rushing through a town to catch all the prey available? Not too mention that I wouldn't even want to get haired by that thing...wth? "Moooom - there's a bolus in our pool again..."

Brr! Gonna get a shower now...I feel itchy suddenly.
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It would kinda be cool having a dog sized T! You could take it to the park on a leash and everyone would freak lol Oops there goes the neighbor's cat.
 
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ARACHNO-SMACK48 said:
It would kinda be cool having a dog sized T! You could take it to the park on a leash and everyone would freak lol Oops there goes the neighbor's cat.
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Take it on a leash? Dog sized? You will be the first meal when attempting to put a leash on it ...
 
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