I am just soft and stupid and could not see through him." He brought his pet tarantula, a bag of porn magazines and a gun with him, she alleged. On a bank holiday that year he had tied her to the ...

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 ...