Clarabelle is a pinktoe tarantula—one of the very first tarantulas described by Western scientists. The gentle pinktoes were originally tree-dwelling forest tarantulas, but these days they're happy to build their silky retreats in the eaves of houses, in shrubs, and in the tube-like curves of pineapple leaves on plantations, too.

[…] whose ancestors, says Clarendon, had been transported out of Normandy with the Conqueror, and had continued, says Sir Henry Wotton, about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre […].

Therefore who so them accuse Of any double entencion, To speake, rowne, other to muse, To pinch at their condicion, All is but false collusion, I dare rightwell the sothe express, They have no better protection, But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.