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Warning as 'hordes' of tarantulas are set to swarm in five US states in mating frenzy
Daily Mail ^ | 7/29/2027 | OSHEEN YADAV

Posted on 07/29/2025 7:17:52 PM PDT by CtBigPat

Thousands of giant tarantulas are set to emerge from the ground in five states starting next month. Wildlife officials warned the hordes will appear in parts of California, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas from August through October.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: california; colorado; kansas; newmexico; tarantula; texas

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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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To: CtBigPat

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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To: CtBigPat

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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Sorry for the duplicate posts. I’m on a slow network with a crappy iPad.


9 posted on 07/29/2025 7:21:28 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: CtBigPat

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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“If you go camping, check your shoes inside your shoes in the morning.”
You are thinking of scorpions, we didn’t play with them when we were kids growing up in Arizona.


11 posted on 07/29/2025 7:24:46 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Traveling across Nevada on I-80 last year, for mile after mile I saw these spots on the shoulder, maybe 1,000 every hundred feet. At 80 mph I couldn’t tell what they were. Finally I pulled over, and later looked them up.
Mormon Crickets. Millions upon millions. I learned that, on side road, there can be so many on the roadway that the surface becomes slick and dangerous


12 posted on 07/29/2025 7:26:02 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Traveling across Nevada on I-80 last year, for mile after mile I saw these spots on the shoulder, maybe 1,000 every hundred feet. At 80 mph I couldn’t tell what they were. Finally I pulled over, and later looked them up.
Mormon Crickets. Millions upon millions. I learned that, on side road, there can be so many on the roadway that the surface becomes slick and dangerous


13 posted on 07/29/2025 7:26:02 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Between the tarantulas and the tsunamis, living in Connecticut doesn’t seem so bad.

I take issue with you. I used to live in Bridgeport.

14 posted on 07/29/2025 7:31:48 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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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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Good to see you got out alive.


17 posted on 07/29/2025 7:33:24 PM PDT by CtBigPat (Epstein's client list did not kill itself.)
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The ptsd took years to settle down


18 posted on 07/29/2025 7:34:48 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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Of course, we have other scary things here.


19 posted on 07/29/2025 7:36:54 PM PDT by CtBigPat (Epstein's client list did not kill itself.)
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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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