Tarantula in a sentence as a noun

Then she lays the eggs in the still alive tarantula’s belly.

Is the tarantula in as much pain and if so what purpose is that serving ?

{edit} A tarantula could be good too {/edit}

I've also seen a few tarantula hawks, which look very evil.

For any one male tarantula, he spreads his genes better by living 2 years than living 8.

For the most painful sting, the tarantula wasp, the recommendation was to lie down flat on the ground and scream until the pain stopped.

At the farm..watch the praying mantis and the tarantula wasp and the drone bees play out their lives changes your perspective on life forever.

The female tarantula lives 8 years; the male tarantula only about 2.

I have seen it first hand with tarantula wasps in my farm where the female wasp will paralyze tarantula with a neurotoxin.

But really what the wasps use it for, primarily, is to temporarily immobilize a tarantula so that it can lay eggs on it.

It's a little unintuitive, but consider the tarantula.

Anecdote : I had a mate who was a paramedic; called to a junkies house he noted a tarantula in a tank and felt terribly sorry for it - so bought it for £10.

Long living male tarantulas don't do as well, presumably because of some trade-offs between reproduction and lifespan.

In your 'tarantula hawk' example, the venom must work on the tarantula, and the tarantula must do its evolutionary best to protect itself from the venom.

Finally, in a carefully controlled environment with their very supportive therapist standing by, they make people experience their worst fear, like having a big tarantula crawl all over them.

I'm not going to go through the tedious process just to have you ultimately declare victory anyway when i can't source their superduper proprietary butterfly/centipede/tarantula keyboard or their retina/cornea/myopia display.

Tarantula definitions

noun

large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)

noun

large hairy tropical spider with fangs that can inflict painful but not highly venomous bites