[WATCH: In the video player above, a tarantula captured on video by two campers in Black Mesa State Park in Oklahoma.] LA ...

Tarantulas often get a bad reputation, but most species are largely harmless to humans and vital to ecosystems such as the ...

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 colors are bolder after a molt, which is common in many arthropods ... According to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension entomologists, female tarantulas lay anywhere from 100 to 1,000 eggs in ...

While many people perceive tarantulas and other arachnids are dangerous animals you should be afraid of, Eastern’s arachnid ...

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 ...

The colors are bolder after a molt, which is common in many arthropods. These tarantulas can grow to about 5 inches in diameter — legs and all — and females are usually larger and a little ...