A recovered arachnophobe has shared how he went from having nightmares about spiders to breeding them in his bedroom. Anthony Zurlo from Scranton, Pennsylvania, shared a picture of more than 100 ...

A woman who owns more than 100 arachnids broke open a tarantula egg sac, filled with hundreds of tiny spiderlings. Rachel Marie, who posts under the name Tarantula Creep Show, has 111 tarantulas, and ...

A wild tarantula crosses a trail in Orange County in late September. Due to a lack of data, it's difficult for scientists to confirm anecdotal reports of declines in spider and insect populations.

Pierce County deputies on scene of double homicide on Herron Island Authorities are on high alert as the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office investigates a double homicide on Herron Island. Snohomish ...

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — If mosquitos, cockroaches and cicadas aren’t enough for you, another crawling friend is breaking out for the summer: tarantulas. Tarantula mating season started in May and lasts ...

It’s a new day for a giant, hairy spider known as Lil’ Kim. Things didn’t start well for her and 249 other baby tarantulas. The spiderlings were confiscated by United States Fish and Wildlife Service ...

It's tarantula season in the golden hills of the Bay Area: that period every fall when black, hairy males of the species Aphonopelma iodiusemerge from their underground burrows in search of a ...