A wave of tarantula sightings might occur in the next few months across portions of the U.S. as mating season begins. The secretive spiders are rarely seen – except during mating season. The hairy ...

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 ...

If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you’re most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It’s mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...

Tens of thousands of tarantulas are starting to make their way above ground, in search of fuzzy love. But while that sounds like an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare, scientists say it’s not as scary as ...

Tarantula mating season is here — and if you're in the Southwest, you might see hordes of these fist-sized spiders marching across the landscape. From late summer through fall, male tarantulas emerge ...

Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London, U.K. He writes about U.S. politics and international news, with a focus on infrastructure and technology. He has covered technological and ...

(NewsNation) — It’s officially tarantula mating season, and scientists have discovered four new species of the spider with a fittingly frisky feature. The newly discovered fuzzy arachnids in the ...

Tarantulas are good for Liz Lopez’s mental health. After working a high-stress shift as a team leader at Philips, a medical manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Lopez arrives home to a house ...

In 2020, Colorado Springs resident Liz Lopez decided to embark on a journey to dispel her arachnophobia, using a technique many of us would shy away from when it comes to our fears — exposure therapy.