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Just before sunset, as baseball-sized tarantulas cross the road at Colorado’s Southern Plains Land Trust, two biologists quietly exit their car to scoop up a few of these eight-legged pedestrians.

To gasps of delight, our guide Nestor Toussaint points out the St Lucia parrot, the island’s vibrant, vocal national bird and one of the rare and endangered species we are searching for on this ...

This week’s featured creature is the reigning queen of spider wasps. The tarantula hawk is perhaps the largest wasp in the world and turns tarantulas into zombies. Well, zombies may be an exaggeration ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas ...

The sun sets as a male tarantula successfully crosses U.S. 350 outside La Junta in September 2021 in search of a female mate. Now through the early part of October is a good time to spot tarantulas in ...

On a cold September morning in 2019, as the sun was rising over the South San Juan Mountains, I was sitting outside on my patio, writes Deirdre Rosenberg. I was attempting to stave off an oncoming ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By the time Rosie emerged from the backrooms of the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster for her afternoon meet-and-greet, the line of guests eager to hold the ...

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” For a moment I didn’t pay much attention to the large insect buzzing around me. It was one of those gentle spring days and ...

One of the most eye-catching insects commonly found in the Tehachapi Mountains is a giant blue-black wasp with orange wings known as a Tarantula Hawk. You can often see these beautifully iridescent, ...