🕷️ Tarantula Migration in La Junta, Colorado! 🕷️ Every fall (mid-September to October), hundreds of male Aphonopelma hentzi—Colorado’s native brown tarantulas—emerge from their burrows in the Comanche National Grassland to search for a mate. This “migration” isn’t a move to new territory—it’s a mating journey! The females stay safely underground, while the males wander up to a mile across the plains. 🌅 Best time to spot them: Around dusk on warm, calm evenings. 📍 Where: Highways 109 & 350, V