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Has anyone ever heard a Barking Spider?
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Also known as the "Queensland whistling tarantula" (or "barking spider") S. crassipes is a species of tarantula native to the east coast of Queensland, Australia and West Virginia. The name "whistling tarantula" comes from its ability to produce a hissing noise when provoked, a trait it shares with other Australian theraphosids.[1] This hissing is produced by the spider stridulating a patch of setae associated with its chelicerae. The species name crassipes is Latin for "fat leg" referring to the relatively fat front legs.
Source(s): Wiki - 7 years ago
Its a euphemism for a farf: <Braaptt!> "Whoa! Looks like someone stepped in a next of West Virginia barking spiders!"
