We know very little about the brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi), whose habitat stretches from Louisiana to Texas and ...

The sun sets as a male tarantula successfully crosses U.S. 350 outside La Junta in September 2021 in search of a female mate. Now through the early part of October is a good time to spot tarantulas in ...

The end of summer in southeastern Colorado brings about a spectacle that isn’t for everybody. Near La Junta, thousands of tarantulas will be marching across the grasslands in search of mates. The ...

YPSILANTI, MI — Cara Shillington’s love for tarantulas began when a college friend recommended them as house pets. The Cape Town, South Africa native never thought of having a pet tarantula before, ...

The 27th Annual Coarsegold Tarantula Awareness Festival is on Saturday, October 25th, from 10:30 am to 5 pm at the Coarsegold Historic Village. It’s goining to be fun for the whole family, ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — Finding a mate is risky business this time of the year for the Colorado brown tarantulas that populate southeastern Colorado. In the late summer, thousands of male tarantulas scour ...

Just before sunset, as baseball-sized tarantulas cross the road at Colorado’s Southern Plains Land Trust, two biologists quietly exit their car to scoop up a few of these eight-legged pedestrians.