From Tidepools to Tracking, Our Favorite Events of 2025
As the events program expanded this year, we got out all over the Bay Area, bringing Bay Nature stories to life.
Tag: tarantulas
We Urgently Need More Information about Spiders, as Climate Change Means New Risks for Them
Climate change seems like a critical threat to spiders. But researchers are hampered by a lack of basic information.
Tarantulas Emerge to Wander the Landscape in the Autumn
Coyotes and predatory wasps can't stop the Bay Area blond tarantula from searching out mates in the autumn.
You Know It’s Fall When Pumpkin Spiders Go On the Move
It’s Halloween, and you’ve probably noticed spiders everywhere. And not just the ones in costume.
Biggest Local Land Invertebrate? The Tarantula
Q: What's the largest underground-dwelling invertebrate in the Bay Area? How does it live?
Video: California’s Native Tarantula
Naturalist Katie Colbert introduces us to the amazing tarantulas that wander the interior hills of the Bay Area.
Tarantula Trekking
Come fall, the male tarantulas get restless and go looking for a mate. Look carefully, and you just might see some of the action.
