Labah-labah

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Labah-labah tarantula diancam  pupus

BUKIT FRASER 11 Jun - Kerana tawaran harga yang tinggi, ramai penduduk tempatan di sini tidak menghiraukan larangan menangkap labah-labah spesies tarantula.

Seekor tarantula bersama sarangnya dijual kepada pelancong asing dengan harga mencecah hingga RM1,000.

Pemandu pelancong dan juga pegawai sains Perbadanan Kemajuan BukitFraser (PKBF), K.S Durai berkata berikutan itu, tarantula yang menjadi salah satu tarikan pelancong di sini kini diancam kepupusan. Tarantuladibeli pelancong untuk dipelihara.

"Saya telah mengesan dan sedar kekurangan haiwan ini sejak awal tahun ini ketika saya memberi penerangan kepada

pelancong," katanya kepada ketika ditemui pada majlis perasmian pertandingan mengambil gambar alam semula jadi di sini baru-baru ini.

Katanya, sebelum ini, hampir 80 ekor labah-labah itu dilihat berada dalam sarangnya namun jumlah itu semakin menurun.

Beliau kesal kerana walaupun terdapat papan tanda larangan menangkap labah-labah di sekitar kawasan peranginan ini, penduduk tempatan dan pelancong tidak mengendahkannya. - BERNAMA

[ Last edited by  Syd at 12-6-2009 07:48 ]

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Species unique to Fraser抯 Hill

THE spider genus Coremiocnemis sp is unique to Fraser抯 Hill and cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

The tarantula grows to about 15cm, has bright golden upper legs, dark blue lower legs and a painful bite.

Distinctively, its two main back legs are covered with thick hair.

Extensive research has yet to be carried out on the species but it is known that the female can live for more than 20 years while the male dies after reaching sexual maturity at around five years old.

Tarantulas live exclusively in earthen embankments creating earthen burrows of a metre or more deep into the soil that ends in a round chamber.


LIVING FOSSIL: The tarantula grows to about 15cm, has bright golden upper legs, dark blue lower legs and a painful bite.

The females live there for the rest of their natural lives, venturing outside to feed only under the cover of darkness.

They breed once a year, generally after the wet season, and always before moulting. Moulting enables the spider to cast off its old exoskeleton skin, grow more and reveal its true colours.

Once the moult is complete and the new skeleton or shell hardens, the spiders are ready to mate.

During the mating process, it is not uncommon for the males to be killed and eaten by the females. But the male who escapes will die naturally, anyway, two to three months after the mating.

Six weeks after mating, the female will produce an egg ball with 200-300 eggs. She will watch vigilantly over them until they hatch after 18 weeks.

Once they hatch, the little spiders will remain in the burrow for a while before striking out on their own into a perilous world where they are often preyed on by, among others, ants, snakes and even adult spiders.

Most of them die. Only about 5% of the hatchlings from 300 eggs will live to see adulthood and less than 1% will live past 10 years of age.

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Tarantula under threat
BY TEOH TEIK HOONG

PETALING JAYA: Demand from international spider collectors and local ignorance are killing a unique species of tarantula in Fraser's Hill.

A trap-door spider called Liphistius malayanus, which has remained ecologically unchanged since the dinosaur era, literally making it a living fossil, is found only at the hill resort and nowhere else in the world.

Its survival is now under threat.

揟he trade in exotic Malaysian species is on the rise overseas with this particular tarantula being advertised for sale in the United States. Baby tarantulas are being offered for US$60 (RM228) each,

myakayina

aku tak tau pun kt Fraser Hill benda ni ada...

zaujahzauji

kalu aku jadik orang kampong aku ternak tarantula tu bebanyak baru jual

tak la diorang pupus...

Syd

banyak jenissss.....

kebetulan tu hari, hari khamis aku pegi taman rama-rama..

ada sekali dipamerkan ttg spisis labah2
dari sekecik2 sampai sebesar2 nye

tarantula cameron ke, fraser hills ke
skit nye banyak rupanya spisis


besar2 cantik2 comey2

meh la datang taman rama-rama dok tgk...

(tapi yang dah mati, diawetkan laaaa