/tags/tarantula tarantula en-US Copyright »Ê¹ÚÍøÖ·/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT /news/2024-10-06/spider-lovers-scurry-to-colorado-town-in-search-of-mating-tarantulas-and-community It's tarantula mating season on the Colorado plains, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate. Hundreds of arachnophiles flock to the small town of La Junta each year to watch them emerge in droves. Scientists, spider enthusiasts and curious Colorado families piled into buses just before dusk last weekend as tarantulas began to roam. Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT /news/2024-10-06/spider-lovers-scurry-to-colorado-town-in-search-of-mating-tarantulas-and-community Thomas Piepert, Associated Press, Hannah Schoenbaum, Associated Press /environment/2019-09-05/its-late-summer-and-thousands-of-tarantulas-in-southeastern-colorado-are-on-the-move Late summers in southeastern Colorado are usually synonymous with golden honeydews and cantaloupes, as the Rocky Ford melon harvest gets underway. But as… Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:26:48 GMT /environment/2019-09-05/its-late-summer-and-thousands-of-tarantulas-in-southeastern-colorado-are-on-the-move