I have just updated the tarantula location map and added a heat map – which shows where we have seen the most tarantulas. Keep on sending in files and don’t give up before the tarantulas do – they are still out looking for love, I just saw two today (10/30/2022)!
I was out of town in Las Vegas this past week and went on a couple of mountain bike rides 20 mi west of Las Vegas on the Blue Diamond trails (Late Night Trailhead) and saw a couple desert tarantulas Aphonopelma iodius. These are related to the hairy red tarantula Aphomopelma marxi that we see in Flagstaff. The males of the desert tarantula also go out looking for love in the fall. Both images in this post are desert tarantulas.
