What to do if a tarantula roams into your home | cbs8.com

“They’re all looking for love, said Matt Thomas, manager at Pet Kingdom in San Diego. Everything needs love on this planet and tarantulas are no exception. Thomas says tarantulas are usually spotted more in the East County, but they’ll venture west too. 

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I don’t like all spiders. The Black Widow and its relatives I don’t like, for instance, and I feel little guilt squishing them. But tarantulas I like. They’re furry, usually slow moving and just strike me as kinda fuzzy and lovable. The venom in not particularly poisonous to humans and they defend themselves by rubbing their bellies and thus supposedly releasing noxious hairs that will make you sneeze or something. And they are the victims of the horrible and dangerous Tarantula Hawk, a particularly nasty wasp, said to have the most painful sting of all the insects (an honor for which there are many claimants, but I’m sure they hurt plenty}. The image of tarantulas setting out on their long journeys through the chapparal is rather touching I think. Yet they are loved by so few. They’re not exactly golden retrievers, except compared to other arachnids.