Jungle Outdoor Sabine Nichols :
When we came home late night, my son looked up and said, “Mom, look! There’s a huge spider above the pantry!” Sure enough, it was a big tarantula. I carefully caught it, and the next morning I released it back into the jungle where it belongs.
Seeing that tarantula brought back memories from my childhood.
When I was about six years old, we lived in a different part of the jungle. Our little house had a roof made entirely of palm leaves. Palm-leaf roofs are beautiful, but they also provide the perfect hiding places for insects, snakes, and tarantulas.
Back then, we had just started living there. The house was surrounded by dense rainforest with very little land cleared around it. I still remember waking up my mum would put the flashlight on in the night and there was a huge tarantula sitting right above my head on the wall. It was just part of everyday life.
Whenever I swept the bedroom or the kitchen, I would usually find at least two tarantulas hiding somewhere. They loved the humid conditions and all the little places where they could stay hidden.
As time went on, my dad cleared more of the jungle around our house. He build an other house with tin roof. Once there were fewer bushes and less dense vegetation close to the house, there were far fewer places for tarantulas to hide
Tarantulas prefer humid environments with lots of cover. Dense shrubs, piles of leaves, and thick vegetation give them perfect hiding spots. Keeping the area around a house more open and less overgrown can make a big difference in how often they wander inside.
2026-07-27 14:06:26