Talk:Avicularia avicularia

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I don't feel it was approperate to remove the link to wikiHow's How to care for a pet tarantula. I feel that it is relevant and completly useful. Here is the link | How to Care for a Tarantula

Lucas H 19:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

It was probably removed b/c it was a general care for tarantula, not specific to this particular spider. Aboverepine 22:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

This is about the animal in the wild not for keeping one as a pet. Wikipedia is not for pet care —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.218.120 (talk) 05:43, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

The image in the article needs to be changed; it's a photograph of a Psalmopoeus cambridgei, not an Avicularia avicularia. The two look nothing alike - in fact the only similarity they share is habitat preference. Both species can be found living in tree canopies in Trinidad. You can see an example of a mature male Avicularia avicularia here: Females look very much the same as this, they're just slightly larger. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LythrumSalicaria (talk • contribs) 18:11, 22 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree re the inappropriateness of a lot of information about care.
 * I've moved the article to the scientific name because recently a lot of other species names have been synonymized with A. avicularia, so it's not clear what the English name really applies to. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Life cycle/Behavior additions
I was just reading through a few papers on this species and thought it might be a good idea to add some more information on its reproduction and life cycle, as this has been quite well studied and may help with identification at different life stages. A paper by Stradling describes the ages of sexual maturity for each gender, annual female molting after maturity, and the key color changes for each stage of the life cycle. The article by Cloudsley‐Thompson and Constantinou that has already been cited also includes some pertinent information on diurnal rhythms for this species, which might help to bulk up the behavioral information provided. Furthermore, the article describes how desert and tropical tarantula species, such as this one, that have different feeding patterns based on time of day/night. Finally, a reference might be needed for the rumored communal behavior of this species, as this might be misleading if not backed-up with more evidence.

Stomatz (talk) 03:29, 7 October 2020 (UTC)