Mexican Red-kneed Tarantulas. Image via George Chernilevsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Red-kneed tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) inhabits the semi-arid regions of Mexico, where even ...
Spiders like the Mexican red-knee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) are encased in a hard external structure called an exoskeleton. The exoskeleton gives the spider the structure and support that an ...