A Colorado brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi) on the move at twilight. Each autumn, Colorado’s brown tarantulas emerge from their burrows and wander across the plains in search of mates. Males, ...

DENVER, Colo. (KDVR) — Calling all spider lovers: It’s almost time for thousands of male tarantulas to crawl across 433,000 acres in southeast Colorado for their mating season. If you aren’t creeped ...

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 ...

Each year, male brown tarantula trek across Colorado to look for ladies. From mid-September to mid-October, they leave the safety of their burrows to go on journeys that will take interesting turns as ...

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 ...

La Junta is one of Colorado's best-kept secrets, boasting historic charm, scenic beauty, and a low cost of living. On crisp autumn evenings, it's also crawling with enormous fluffy spiders. While you ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It's that time of the year again, when a large part of Colorado turns into an arachnophobe's worst nightmare as 1,000s of tarantulas emerge to find a mate in the southern ...

The start of fall is like a siren to some of Colorado’s wildlife, a warning that they are running out of time. For tarantulas, their biological clocks are ticking, and the start of winter provides a ...

With summer approaching its final stretch, that means the weather should slowly start to change in the coming months. That also means tarantulas will be seen more and more. According to Dan McCamish, ...

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.