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Tarantulas look for love at annual festival in Colorado

Published October 3, 2023 at 7:33 AM CDT

Tarantulas are looking for love in southeastern Colorado. It’s mating season for the big hairy spiders. And the city of La Junta capitalizes on the spiders’ season of romance by hosting a tarantula festival.

KRCC’s Shanna Lewis takes us there.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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