Do tarantulas mark their territories?

[johnharper]

Do they mark their territories with any scents that only other tarantulas can pick up on?

John

 

[Anastasia]

yes, with web

 

[Mushroom Spore]

Seconding "webs."

 

[Anastasia]

Seconding "webs."

oh yes, Thank you, 'webs' AKA 'silk'

 

[johnharper]

Do the females release pheramones in the breeding season? Males go looking for them I wondered how they find them in the wild.

John

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Do the females release pheramones in the breeding season? Males go looking for them I wondered how they find them in the wild.

John

I'm not sure if there's any chemical signal, but in the wild all the mature males i've see always looked like they were pretty much randomly wandering around (as quickly as they could, to boot).

 

[Zoltan]

I'm not sure about tarantulas specifically but I know that females of true spiders use pheromones making it easier for males to find them.

 

[Travis K]

I would assume and I stress Assume, that T's use pheromones to communicate to some degree. I would also assume and yet stress assumption again, that this degree of chemical communication would varying in depth and degree among different species.

I would expect that the more communal a species is the more it would rely and depend upon chemical communication. Again let me stress the above assumptions are just that, assumptions. I am not aware of any studies that could be sited as evidence to the above thoughts and assumptions made by myself.

The Chicken Spider would be a very interesting species to see a study on regarding this matter, but then again any true study on the Chicken Spider would be nice.

 

[Travis K]

chicken spider

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/spiderman.shtml

here is a link to info on the chicken spider in case in of you have not come across it yet. Click on the link at the bottom to listen to the radio clip.

 

[Anastasia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/spiderman.shtml

here is a link to info on the chicken spider in case in of you have not come across it yet. Click on the link at the bottom to listen to the radio clip.

Ahh Thank you, I love that article!

 

[johnharper]

Has anyone collected the chicken spiders yet? I would love to see them in the states someday.

John

 

[Travis K]

Has anyone collected the chicken spiders yet? I would love to see them in the states someday.

John

Apparently some have them in europe, but as far as I know there are not any in the US

 

[scar is my t]

from what i think the male listens to the vibrations caused by the female but that is to anwser another question

 

[jeepinwu2]

My Avics mark their territory with poo.

 

[vanquisher91]

I think it would be safe to assume that like most other ineverts, pheremones are used to an extent to determine sex and species. I don't think that T's tapping communicates this information, I just think it is more or less their method of playing "marco polo" and to attract one anothers attention.

 

[dannax]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/spiderman.shtml

here is a link to info on the chicken spider in case in of you have not come across it yet. Click on the link at the bottom to listen to the radio clip.

Awesome! I would love to have 50 T's, living together in a ginormous tank! Can you imagine the type of tunneling they could make. This is what dreams are made of! LOL!