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Hop aboard the tarantula bus tour
Season 2025 Episode 83 | 3m 45s | CC
In downtown La Junta, a rural town with a population of about 7,100 people, businesses painted their front windows with spiderwebs and adorned their buildings with super-sized tarantulas. The decorations came ahead of the town’s Tarantula Festival, an annual event that started in 2022 to celebrate the yearly mating season of thousands of tarantulas in southeastern Colorado.
