{"id":128529,"date":"2025-08-08T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128529\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:00:08","slug":"tarantulas-are-here-in-los-angeles-right-now-during-mating-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128529\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantulas are here In Los Angeles right now during mating season"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re restless, can\u2019t sleep, wander out to the living room in the dark\u2014and suddenly you feel like you\u2019re being watched\u2026 by eight eyes. That\u2019s cool, tarantulas aren\u2019t a big deal. They\u2019re furry and friendly and, well, misunderstood. They\u2019re coming in full force to Greater Los Angeles, according to the L.A. Times<\/a>, so you might want to be fully prepared with your night vision goggles for your mere two eyes, and learn more about them so you can embrace them (not literally, of course) and live through their march through town.<\/p>\n

Do they bite? Yes. Is the bite venomous? Yes. Will you die? Nah. And you can avoid being bitten by paying attention to the tarantula\u2019s threat pose where it lifts its two front legs into the air, kind of like Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid about to do the crane kick. Just back off, and you and the tarantula can still be friends.<\/p>\n

The tarantula you\u2019re most likely to see is the five-inch Steindachner\u2019s ebony tarantula. This handsome, non-aggressive spider is actually just swiping right on Tinder, trying to find a mate\u2014hence its parade of lust, which can last as long as 20 miles. They\u2019re nothing if not determined.<\/p>\n

You might see them in Griffith Park<\/a>, Runyon Canyon<\/a>, Malibu Creek State Park<\/a>, the Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains, Leo Carrillo State Park<\/a> and Topanga Canyon, says the Times. Or you might discover one in your own backyard pool (if you fish it out and it looks dead, it might reanimate, just so you know, according to LAist<\/a>). If you venture out to the Mojave Desert, you might see another species, the Mojave blonde tarantula.<\/p>\n

Probably the most problematic aspect of all this is that you might encounter a tarantula swarm. One seems doable, but you could actually see\u2014brace yourself\u2014hundreds, if you\u2019re out in the desert late at night. Just make sure your tent isn\u2019t in their path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019re restless, can\u2019t sleep, wander out to the living room in the dark\u2014and suddenly you feel like you\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,10336,2961,224,5337,10337,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-128529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-categories-things-to-do","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news-city-life","15":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114992095288618164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}