Over the next few weeks, the setting sun over the Rocky Mountains will lure thousands of hairy, eight-legged creatures out of their burrows across the eastern plains in search of love. It's that time ...

A volunteer holds up a female tarantula after luring it out of its burrow in order to study the structure of the spider's den near Lamar, in southeastern Colorado. The tarantula was released afterward ...

LAKEPOINT, Utah — Halloween decorations aren't the only large spiders being seen in some Utah neighborhoods recently. During the fall season, male tarantulas leave their burrows to find a female mate, ...

While human activity has been constrained for months because of the coronavirus pandemic, the rest of nature marches on. In particular, it’s time again for the annual tarantula mating season in parks ...

It’s tarantula mating season in Colorado and spider aficionados are traveling from as far away as California to see the annual matchmaking rituals. As Colorado’s public radio news recently detailed, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Get ready for some fur, ...

If you’re hiking on trails in the western U.S. right now, you may run into some fuzzy critters. The end of summer is an active time for tarantula mating season in several states. Male tarantulas in ...