Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The tarantula hawk is known to have one of the most painful ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas ...

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 ...

Justin Schmidt is an entomologist, and has accordingly been stung by a lot of bugs. So he invented something called the Schmidt sting pain index (named after some guy called Schmidt, apparently), ...

Missouri is home to the Texas Brown Tarantula, the state's largest spider, which can be found in open, dry glades in south ...

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 ...

The famous tarantula scene from 'Home Alone' will soon be immortalised in bronze, thanks to the film's star, actor Daniel Stern. The 68-year-old actor, who portrayed Marv Murchins, one half of the ...

A giant space tarantula has been caught by a Webb – NASA’s highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, that is. At 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, the ...

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons infinite tarantula island is real, and it's an extremely efficient way to pay off your mortgage for bug catchers with nerves of steel. Every Switch owner gets their own ...

A girl in Texas was thrilled when she discovered that she had received a tarantula on Christmas morning. Footage taken by ...

I’ve always been a stan of the DualShock 4, and the GameSir Tarantula Pro feels like it’s been made exactly for me. Packing TMR thumbsticks and all the comfort you could want, this is one of the best ...