Happy Tarantula Mating Season

Great news for people who love staying indoors: It is tarantula mating season in California this week. They will reportedly be copulating “all over” your local hiking trails, Golden State, but we’re told they’re “harmless.” Another detail from this story that has the potential, I’ve learned, to lead you down a really strange and not-recommended YouTube hole: “After inseminating the female, male tarantulas often meet a tragic fate: if females are hungry, they sometimes overpower and then devour them. It’s not too hard, considering the males are already entangled in the female’s fangs.” Who run… the world? [via]