Tag: Tarantulas
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How a Colorado Springs woman dispelled her arachnophobia, fell in love with tarantulas
Tarantulas are good for Liz Lopez’s mental health. After working a high-stress shift as a team leader at Philips, a medical manufacturing company in Colorado Springs, Lopez arrives home to a house packed with creatures, but mostly tarantulas. Her living room would look like any other living room if it weren’t for the stacks of…
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Colorado Springs resident dispelled her arachnophobia, fell in love with tarantulas
In 2020, Colorado Springs resident Liz Lopez decided to embark on a journey to dispel her arachnophobia, using a technique many of us would shy away from when it comes to our fears — exposure therapy. She soon fell in love with tarantulas and has around 70 in her home collection.
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Walk among hundreds of spiders at upcoming exhibit near Denver
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Sara Stevens was not keen on spiders when she started at Butterfly Pavilion. “My background was marine biology,” said the director of animal collections at the Westminster zoo of invertebrates. “My office had like 200 tarantulas in it. So it was a little stressful at first.” Like so many adults, she harbored what she considered…
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Now is the time to go see busy tarantulas of southeast Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While Coloradans flock to view fall colors and the elk rut in Estes Park, now is also the time for a similarly unforgettable natural phenomenon on the state’s often overlooked southeast plains. This one might get you more in the Halloween spirit. Now through much…
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Tarantu-love: Saving Colorado’s ‘charismatic’ spider
This time of year on the Southeastern plains of Colorado, hundreds of tarantulas emerge out of their dirt-caked homes at dusk and crawl for miles in search of a mate. Not much is known about the behavior of these eight-legged creatures, but last weekend, a team of scientists from the Butterfly Pavilion made the trip…
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The misunderstood tarantulas of southern Colorado, now making their annual march
LA JUNTA • We have been driving for hours on roads to nowhere, nothing but flat land and sky all around, when finally I glimpse those hairy, spindly legs. “There!” I shout, causing Gazette photographer Christian Murdock to slam the brakes and lurch to the side of the road. We had to be quick. That…
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Thousands of tarantulas soon to start crawling through Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A tarantula rising is about to happen in Colorado, sure to surprise unwitting campers in some parts of the state. Each year, thousands of male tarantulas start marching around the southern part of Colorado from late August through October, according to Colorado State University’s College…