TAOS — With piñon picking and prescribed burns underway in Taos County, another familiar mark of fall has stepped forward — this one eight-legged. From August to October, thousands of male tarantulas ...

A horde of baseball-sized tarantulas may soon start roaming across several Southern states. These hairy spiders, known as Texas brown tarantulas or Aphonopelma hentzi, are about to enter their mating ...

OKLAHOMA, USA — Brown tarantulas can be found all across the South, including in Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Now that it's mating season, they may be easier to find. September ...

[WATCH: In the video player above, a tarantula captured on video by two campers in Black Mesa State Park in Oklahoma.] LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – It’s mating season for tarantulas in the United States. Currently in Texas, male tarantulas are on the hunt for a mate. It’s what’s being called a tarantula ‘migration.’ “So, that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Every September-October tarantulas emerge in southern Colorado to look for a mate, and tourists congregate at an annual festival in La Junta to watch the spider spectacle. If spiders make you ...

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 ...

Tarantula mating season occurs in the fall, primarily in southwestern states, although Texas brown tarantulas are also found in Missouri. Male tarantulas wander in search of females, while females ...