Watch The Big Pet Project Saturdays on RTÉ One at 5.15pm and stream it now on RTÉ Player. Check out what happened when Demi and Adam met Pumpkin the Tarantula.

It's tarantula mating season in San Diego. Residents may see more of the crawling creatures, especially in East County. "Males are just on the hunt for love," said Matt Thomas, CEO of Pet Kingdom in ...

Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and tarantulas (Theraphosidae) are both maligned and feared throughout the world. They are venomous, ...

* Agatha, the zoo's Mexican red knee tarantula, is probably 25 to 30 years old. Zoo-keepers think she was donated by a woman whose son went away to college and didn't want to bring his pet tarantula ...