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Tarantula discovered in Carlow store

Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 01:03 AM
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A large tarantula has been discovered in a Carlow town store.

The discovery was made by two local children who were rummaging around the Chic and Cheerful shop, but luckily for them the spider was dead!

The exotic hairy spider is believed to have originated in Peru. The pair discovered the tarantula which was encased in a glass box when they sifting through donations for the shop.

“We think he might be an endangered species,” said the proprietor of the shop

 “[we] think he might be from the goliath tarantula family, so we have decided to send him to the Natural History Museum for tests.”


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Maoleitigh | Nov 14, 2010, 08:52 PM EST
Tarantulas often hitchhike on bananas from the tropics.

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sirpeter | Nov 14, 2010, 05:10 AM EST
The common cockroach (Georgus Dillonus Anti-immigrantus)

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texastim | Nov 10, 2010, 07:50 PM EST
Reminds me of the Tarantula festival held every year at Pinnacles State Park about 80 miles south of Hollister California. Every year around October these big spiders are crawling all over the place, looking for a mate. I took a friend and her son down there a few years ago, and Eddie caught one of them and closed it in a jar, but this kid was so crazy he thought it would be funny to let it out in the car on the way home. That was one scary ride, driving a twisting California highway all the while imagining that big hairy thing was crawling up your leg.

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Towngate | Nov 10, 2010, 05:14 PM EST
NAUGHTY EDITOR: MISLEADING HEADER AND PIC!.....SHOULD BE: "MOULDY AULD DEAD SPIDER FOUND IN SHOP RUBBISH" - or perhaps ( just to please GeorgeDillon:) "HAIRY FORREN TING INVADES HOLY UURLAND!" Don't worry,George,GERMANcockroaches are renowned for their intelligence and resiliance but before we can elect any of them as TD's, they will have worked Ireland out as a hopeless case! and - at this rate - realised there soon won't be any food left in the place! But you watch out, my friend! They might just develop a taste for xenophobes!

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GeorgeDillon | Nov 10, 2010, 02:54 PM EST
I've heard that the common cockroach, which was unknown in Ireland, is now widespread. It's brought in to Ireland in the luggage of all the Chinese, Indian and Pakistani immigrants.

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