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'Greenbottle blue' tarantula        Images © Mark A. Chappell

This large and colorful tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) can move very quickly, as I discovered when taking these pictures.   It's native to dry forests in Venezuela (this freshly-molted one is a captive).

  • Canon 1D Mk. II, 100 mm Canon macro lens, ring-flash (2006)