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The softball-sized spiders, while mostly harmless to humans, can still bite, flick irritating hairs, or cause alarm as they wander through campsites, backyards, and across roads.

Residents and visitors may spot the spiders crossing roads in groups or creeping across campsites and backyards.

In some places, tarantulas are expected to appear by the dozens, marching in loose lines across roads like tiny brown tanks.

Unlike most desert animals that avoid heat by hiding, these tarantulas come out when the late-summer rains begin.

The sudden rise in moisture and shift in temperature signal it is time to find a mate.

Dan McCamish, a senior environmental scientist with California State Parks, said: 'They're typically out from late evening into early dawn, that's when visitors tend to see them.'

1 posted on 07/29/2025 7:17:52 PM PDT by CtBigPat
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Between the tarantulas and the tsunamis, living in Connecticut doesn’t seem so bad.


2 posted on 07/29/2025 7:19:05 PM PDT by CtBigPat (Epstein's client list did not kill itself.)
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If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.


3 posted on 07/29/2025 7:19:55 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.


4 posted on 07/29/2025 7:20:00 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.


5 posted on 07/29/2025 7:20:00 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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Growing up in Arizona, we had them all of the time during the rainy season, you hardly see them anymore. We would play with them when we were kids.


6 posted on 07/29/2025 7:20:48 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Better tarantulas than hantavirus rodents.

7 posted on 07/29/2025 7:20:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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What would happen if you took all the spiders in the world and put them in a big jar?

You’d get one spider.


8 posted on 07/29/2025 7:20:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My mom is half French. Her mother and father are French, but she lost her legs in a car accident.)
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Spiders are the reason why God invented the flamethrower.


10 posted on 07/29/2025 7:23:52 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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15 posted on 07/29/2025 7:32:11 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Humans also indulge in shower mating 😂


16 posted on 07/29/2025 7:32:38 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (TERM LIMITS is the ONLY WAY to get rid of corrupt cas filreer politicians. )
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I remember seeing a documentary about this years ago. At least I think it was a documentary.


20 posted on 07/29/2025 7:37:54 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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When I was a kid growing up in Texas, we had tarantulas everywhere. But I think the fire ants won the day. Same fate for the horny toads and bobwhite quail.


22 posted on 07/29/2025 7:38:48 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Don’t they do it every year?


24 posted on 07/29/2025 7:40:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Tarantulas already running around here in Dallas.

Neighbor spotted it crawling up the side of my house.

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27 posted on 07/29/2025 7:42:20 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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28 posted on 07/29/2025 7:44:29 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Remember, they are good eating... taste like chicken! Roast em, boil em, bake em. Yum yum yum


34 posted on 07/29/2025 7:57:09 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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We don’t have tarantulas on east coast, but we do have Brown Gray Fishing Spiders which if you didn’t know better, you’d think they were tarantulas... on Cocaine! Had one run across a poster on my wall once, so loud it woke me up. Got up, spotted the dang thing. Was carrying its egg sac. Creepy as all get out tried to smack it with a slipper, but those suckers are fast! Missed. Tried several times till finally got it.

They loved to hang out in dirty laundry a lot. You’d pick it up to throw in washing machine and one would run across your hands. Jumped several times over the years.

But still better than living in Australia where their spiders kill folks and are aggressive I guess


41 posted on 07/29/2025 8:07:13 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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53 posted on 07/29/2025 9:06:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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Here's some background music for this thread...

     "The Spider And The Fly" - The Rolling Stones    (song link)

57 posted on 07/29/2025 9:17:17 PM PDT by Songcraft
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Nothing to worry about, but they can be a distraction to traffic.

59 posted on 07/29/2025 9:20:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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