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Texas brown tarantula

Aphonopelma hentzi

Photo by RonaldOrosz
Published on Project Noah
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29.4589, -98.4584

Field Notes

Description:

About 4 inches from front to back or a little bigger than the palm of your hand.

Habitat:

Botanical gardens on the side walk.

Notes:

Coolest find so far! We visited the Botanical Gardens today and I finally got to see a brown tarantula in the wild! Well kind of in the wild just outside the city limits.

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PublishedSeptember 19, 2015

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