If you suffer from arachnophobia, this is the time of year when you’re most likely to run into one of your worst nightmares: a tarantula. It’s mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in ...

Spiders exhibit a remarkable array of mating strategies shaped by sexual selection, where both male and female behaviours, morphologies and chemical signals co‐evolve to maximise reproductive success.

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It's mating season for most of the 29 species of tarantulas in the United States, 10 of which can be found in California, according to Los Padres National Forest. Around this time, tarantulas tend to ...