If interested, the female will leave her home to meet her suitor. But here’s where it can get dicey for her winning choice. [Related: Newly discovered tarantulas may already be in danger.] ...

Male tarantulas in areas of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and even as east as Kansas go out in the world to find love, which comes in the form of female tarantulas who hang out in burrows.

The National Park Service said males can travel as many as twenty miles in search of a mature female, and that is what is occurring during the tarantula migration. Females are larger than the ...

According to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension entomologists, female tarantulas lay anywhere from 100 to 1,000 eggs in a web that is constructed like a hammock. The egg sac is kept guarded in a burrow.

mentioning that they knock on the web “door” of a female spider’s burrow to request permission to mate. In Colorado, spider lovers flock to a small town to watch the tarantulas “emerge in ...