Tarantula bites are about as painful
as bee stings.
Despite their incredibly scary reputation, it turns out that tarantulas have a bite that is about
as painful and as venomous as a bee sting. And according to Burke Museum, "None of the North American species or those
commonly kept as pets are considered to pose even a mild bite hazard."
In fact,
the museum's website says, "Hollywood is squarely to blame for these
spiders' toxic-to-humans reputation. Tarantulas are large, photogenic and many
are easily handled, and therefore they have been very widely used in horror and
action-adventure movies."
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