Yes, we have tarantulas in SoCal. And they’re on the march right now

Careful where you step if you’re hiking in Griffith Park or other natural areas in Southern California this summer and fall. Some particularly large eight-legged friends are on the march.

Yeah, we’re talking about tarantulas.

“A lot of people might not know that we have tarantulas here. They think of them as, you know, some animal you would find in maybe even another country or way out in the desert,” Tyler Young, an educator at the L.A. County Natural History Museum, told LAist…

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