{"id":3723,"date":"2010-03-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/colorado-tarantula\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:50:31","slug":"colorado-tarantula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2010\/03\/02\/colorado-tarantula\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado tarantula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Colorado has its own species of tarantula? CNHP ecologist Ren\u00e9e Rondeau took these photos of our endemic tarantula, <i>Aphonopelma coloradanum<\/i>, in Pueblo County last fall.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7012\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tarantula2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" alt=\"Aphonopelma coloradanum\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tarantula2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tarantula2-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Now, now, he&#8217;s just as scared of you as you are of him.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThese large furry spiders may be seen in the southeastern corner of the state, as far north as Colorado Springs, especially during the mating season from late August through November.  Most tarantulas out and about are mature males, looking for mature females.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7013\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tarantula1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Aphonopelma coloradanum\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tarantula1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/tarantula1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> Gee, Ren\u00e9e, what&#8217;s that moving around in your backpack?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Colorado has its own species of tarantula? CNHP ecologist Ren\u00e9e Rondeau took these photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zoology","8":"entry","9":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}