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.'
Between the tarantulas and the tsunamis, living in Connecticut doesn’t seem so bad.
If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.
If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.
If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.
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.
What would happen if you took all the spiders in the world and put them in a big jar?
You’d get one spider.
Spiders are the reason why God invented the flamethrower.
Humans also indulge in shower mating 😂
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.
Don’t they do it every year?
Tarantulas already running around here in Dallas.
Neighbor spotted it crawling up the side of my house.
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Remember, they are good eating... taste like chicken! Roast em, boil em, bake em. Yum yum yum
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
Nothing to worry about, but they can be a distraction to traffic.