The greater number are found on adobe and clay soil.

Tarantulas never come out at night; the male sometimes appears just before sundown, but the female is seldom seen away from home unless disturbed.

They seem to have a model family life.

Mr.Wakely, who has caught more of these spiders than any living man, does not seem to dread the job in the least.

One man goes ahead and places a small red flag at the opening of the nest; the next man pours down a little water, which brings Mr.T---- up to see what is the matter, and then Mr.W---- quietly secures it with a pair of pincers and puts it in a bottle, and has thus succeeded in catching hundreds, but has never had a bite.