WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — It’s tarantula season in the golden hills of the Bay Area: that period every fall when black, hairy males of the species Aphonopelma iodius emerge from their underground burrows ...
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. It's ...
Happy tarantula mating season to those who celebrate, which might be a very, very small group. There are 29 described individual species of tarantulas in the United States, including a nonnative ...
If you’re hiking or camping in the arid Southwest and West in the next few months, get ready for what could be the experience – or fright – of a lifetime. Across the United States, in California, ...
Colombia is located in northwestern South America, with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Andes ...
As Texas critters go, the brown tarantula—Aphonopelma hentzi, if you’re feeling fancy—is not a widely beloved creature. Spiders suffer from public relations issues at the best of times, and larger ...
Forget flowers and chocolate – in the spider world, courtship survival is the ultimate gift. Scientists have now discovered a new genus of tarantula and the species' defining feature is a supersized ...
Butterfly Pavilion, the beloved invertebrate zoo home to Rosie the tarantula and hundreds of other-like creatures, will once again host its special exhibition, Spiders Around the World, for the month ...