Texas Brown Info

[FireTigress]

Hey, Im taking my Texas Brown on tv tomorrow and I wanted some genral info. This is what I've got so far:

Females of this hairy spider average 2" long, and males average a little over 1 1/2".
The body and legs are uniformly dark brown. The female species is about two inches
long while the male is smaller being one and half inches in length
The males are short-lived which the females can live up to 25 years.
The coloration is basically dark brown on the legs and light brown on the abdomen
The height arranges from two to three inches.

Native to Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Arkansa.Tarantulas occur in dry, rocky glades, where they inhabit silk-lined burrows in abandoned
rodent or reptile tunnels or in other natural cavities. They plug their burrows for the winter months and emerge in spring.
They may hunt at night, but apparently they prefer to remain in their burrows waiting for prey to come by.
Crickets, June beetles, ground beetles, grasshoppers, cicadas, and caterpillars are favored dietary items.


Females have been known to reach sexual maturity at 11 years and have lived as long as 25 years in captivity.
Males have have been known to reach sexual maturity in 10 years.
Tarantula bites are not considered particularly dangerous

Tell me if any of this info I collected is wrong. Also I was told the males life span is 5 yrs and the femals is 25 yrs. Is this acurate?
Thanks.

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

Originally posted by FireTigress
Females of this hairy spider average 2" long, and males average a little over 1 1/2".
The body and legs are uniformly dark brown. The female species is about two inches
long while the male is smaller being one and half inches in length

Well, for one you said the same thing twice. Also, are you sure males can reach sexual maturity at 10?

Aidan

[LPacker79]

How are you measuring size? Most people go by legspan. Sounds like you're using body length, is that right?

[FireTigress]

Well this is just a list of info I copied and pasted off the internet. Im not sure if the people who originaly wrote this used leg span or not.

[LPacker79]

They're definitely going by body length. Those sizes given would be way innacurate if they were going by legspan.