If you’re hiking or camping in the arid Southwest and West in the next few months, get ready for what could be the experience – or fright – of a lifetime. Across the United States, in California, ...

A sure sign of autumn in the Santa Ynez Valley is the return of the tarantulas. This is the time of year — the warmest days in our region — that the arachnids are leaving hillside nests in search of ...

Recent tarantula sightings in San Diego homes – including one arachnid found near a family’s microwave and another in a person’s shoe – are due to the time of year, and perhaps a side effect of the ...

The brown tarantula is about the size of an apple or orange. University of Missouri-St. Louis scientist Becky Hansis-O’Neill and her team of students have been using an app to track their locations, ...