While these spiders do bite their bite isn t known to cause serious symptoms.
Do tarantulas live in attics of houses in colorado.
Spiders do much more good than harm.
They scuttle about for indeterminate distances and lengths of time until they find a mate.
From the innocent daddy longlegs to the harmful brown recluse here are the most common house spiders how to identify them and when to worry about a bite according to entomologists.
At the peak of mating season about 12 tarantulas are typically visible at a given time.
Theraphosidae tarantulas identification and descriptive features.
To be clear brown recluse spiders are very rare in colorado but there have been confirmed cases in which they ve been present.
As they do every mating season the tarantulas surface in search of a mate.
Colorado wildlife officials say thousands of tarantulas are expected to start their annual migration through the state soon.
Attics homes and out buildings.
In most cases the bites are of little consequence to people.
Most live in buildings or walls and like all spiders live in houses.
But you end up in colorado don t expect to see thousands at once.
It s the stuff of nightmares for some but it s simply summer in southeastern colorado where thousands yes thousands of male tarantulas are making the trek to find a mate.
Though colorado is outside of the typical range of the brown recluse this spider can be transported to a new location by relocated residents something colorado is full of.
It s their mating season and thousands of the all male texas brown tarantulas have descended.
If you fear tarantulas stay far away from southeast colorado right now they re everywhere.
Tarantulas figures 1 2 3 and 6 are large hairy spiders and all species found in colorado are generally dark brown to black.
Every year a mass migration of tarantulas shows up in southeast colorado according to the gazette most of the hairy spiders are male oklahoma brown tarantulas looking for female tarantulas.