The Zoo’s female Antilles pink-toed bird-eating spider produced more than 140 babies.
The four year old spiderlings are now about the size of a 5p coin!
Mark Bushell, assistant curator of invertebrates at Bristol Zoo, said: "This species is one of the most beautiful types of tarantula around.
"When the spiderlings first hatch, they are tiny and translucent but they gradually develop, moult and turn into little blue fluffy tarantulas and are very eye-catching."
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