A close-up video of a tarantula building an egg sac has captivated Reddit, offering a rare look at a behavior most people ...

"If you want to keep a tarantula as a pet, don't bring in a wild one." ...

"I was genuinely tense wondering whether the little guy was going to be allowed to just walk away afterwards." ...

Delve into the intriguing world of the curly haired tarantula, a captivating arachnid species with a stunning mane of hair ...

Tarantulas are one of the most well-known types of spiders. There's a reason fake tarantulas are sold at Halloween — some people think they're creepy. But others like them and keep them as pets. No ...

Arizona is home to hundreds of different wasp species, but getting stung by a tarantula hawk might be the most painful. Meet ...

The third annual Tarantula Festival brought visitors to the state’s southeastern town of La Junta over the weekend to witness the mating season of Colorado’s brown tarantula. These two-toned creatures ...

If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you’re most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It’s mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...

It's been wet in Texas this year — exceptionally wet, as a matter of fact. With record amounts of rain, Texas is more than a little hot, green and rife with happy insects. Take the tarantula hawk, for ...

Bright colors in the animal kingdom usually mean danger. And the bright colors of the tarantula hawk definitely mean danger, not only because of the powerful sting that it possesses, but danger to its ...

Watch out, arachnophobes; you’re about to be seeing a lot more tarantulas around. As the weather begins to cool and the season for spooky decorations approaches, brown tarantula mating season is also ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...