Every year, spiders kill about 20 people worldwide. That’s fewer than scorpions, lightning strikes, or hippos—and a tiny ...

Spiders are getting in the spooky season spirit across San Diego, setting up sticky webs to ensnare sidewalk passersby right before Halloween. The big picture: But the arachnids don't actually care ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

MISSOURI – Fall is right around the corner, so keep an eye out for Missouri’s largest spiders. Texas Brown Tarantulas are once again on the move. A telephoto close-up digital image of a Texas brown ...

It’s tarantula mating season in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. The big spiders crawl across roads and between scrubby vegetation on the plains. You’ll often see dozens of the eight-legged ...

These hairy spiders spend almost all of their lives underground. But when it's time to mate, they must brave the great outdoors before they perish. Male tarantulas are moving and wooing their way ...