Each year between May and August, there's a noticeable uptick in tarantula activity and migration-like movement as lovesick males search for females to mate, triggered by warmer spring ...

It’s what’s being called a tarantula ‘migration.’ “So, that is the wrong use of that word, actually,” said the curator of Entomology with the ABQ BioPark, Jason Schaller.

From August to October, thousands of male tarantulas in New Mexico are on ... and they used to think of it as migration, but it’s not. It’s them looking for mates.” Habitat and range ...

California isn't the only state to experience an annual tarantula migration. In August, tens of thousands of Oklahoma brown tarantulas moved through the area around La Junta, Colorado in search of ...