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.] ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...