tarantulas

Soon, thousands of tarantulas will be crawling through Colorado and looking for love during mating season.

Soon, thousands of tarantulas will be crawling through Colorado and looking for love during mating season.

At the end of August thousands of male tarantulas will hit the road to try and find a mate.

When you arrive to your new place and find a package marked 'return to sender,' you might not want to open it - there might be a giant, hairy spider inside! That's what happened to a U.K. man - a package marked 'return to sender' sent to his new address contained a Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater, the third largest spider in the world...

Afraid of spiders? How about 240 tarantulas? Sven Koppler from Germany mailed a box of spiders to Los Angeles. Fish and Wildlife Service agents intercepted the packages then posed as customers and ordered dozens more spiders, including a protected Mexican species.