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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Colorado brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi) on the move at twilight. Each autumn, Colorado’s brown tarantulas emerge from ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see some big hairy spiders scampering around from now through the end of October, you are witnessing male tarantulas on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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