{"id":24665,"date":"2017-10-23T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24665"},"modified":"2017-10-23T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T01:00:12","slug":"halloween-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/halloween-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Festival Celebrates Tarantulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tanfest.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Coarsegold, California&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/coarsegold-tarantula-festival.html\">Tarantula Festival<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>How much do you know about tarantulas? Head to Coarsegold Oct.28, 2017 to learn about the spiders, participate in tarantula races &amp; derbies, and have some Halloween fun.<\/p>\n<h2>Tarantula Interesting Facts<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gif\/tarantu.gif\" alt=\"imgs\" width=\"277\" height=\"178\" \/><br \/>\nTarantulas are a delicacy in Venezuela and Cambodia.\u00a0Tarantulas range from as small as a fingernail to as large as a dinner plate weighing up to 6 ounces (nearly half a pound!)<\/p>\n<p>Some types have been around for 16 million years.<br \/>\nRegardless of their fearsome reputation, tarantulas are objects of predation.<br \/>\nFemale tarantulas can live up to 40 years.<br \/>\nLike all arthropods, the tarantula is an invertebrate that relies on an exoskeleton for muscular support.<br \/>\nThey are burrowers that live in the ground.<br \/>\nAll tarantulas can produce silk.<\/p>\n<h2>Fear Factor<\/h2>\n<p>There is no record of a tarantula bite causing a human fatality.<br \/>\nTarantulas are venomous and can cause spasms, pain, hallucinations, muscle cramps and allergic reaction.<br \/>\nTarantulas flick off\u00a0 urticating hairs as a defense mechanism. The barbed hairs can cause serious itching and rashes, breathing problems if inhaled and eye damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coarsegold, California&#8217;s annual Tarantula Festival How much do you know about tarantulas? Head to Coarsegold Oct.28, 2017 to learn about the spiders, participate in tarantula races &amp; derbies, and have some Halloween fun. Tarantula Interesting Facts Tarantulas are a delicacy in Venezuela and Cambodia.\u00a0Tarantulas range from as small as a fingernail to as large as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}