From the Andes to the Amazon, Colombia Is a Tarantula Diversity Hotspot

Colombia is located in northwestern South America, with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Andes ...
Colorado Public Radio

La Junta’s third annual Tarantula Fest expands with more bus tours to witness mating season

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 ...
NPR

For This Tarantula-Killing Wasp, Dinner's A Meal Best Served Living

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, ...
San Angelo Standard-Times

Tarantula hawks are a terrifying insect — especially if you're a tarantula

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 ...
USA Today

A space tarantula? Stunning, star-forming nebula captured by NASA's James Webb Telescope

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 ...