The story behind the unique tarantula migration that takes place annually just outside a small town in Colorado and the conservation efforts to assure it continues.
outside of it is even more so: thousands of tarantulas “migrate” annually through the Comanche National Grasslands.
Once they have reached sexual maturity, the male tarantulas then emerge from their burrows in pursuit of a female. As the females remain in and near their burrows for the duration of their life, it is up to the males to find them. A fascinating event for the region and critical to the life cycle of the spiders, there is some worry that their migration could be affected by climate change, overgrazing, and human expansion.While in La Junta, I followed a researcher Dallas Haselhuhn, whose goal is to find out what triggers the tarantulas’ mass movement and how climate change is affecting its timing.
My typical technique for macro photography is to use manual focus set to 1:1 and then rocking my camera in and out to achieve sharp focus — this is not an uncommon practice among macro photographers. However, these spiders were on a mission to reproduce and didn’t feel the need to stop and pose. I spent the whole week in the grasslands searching for tarantulas and trying to get the portrait I was looking for with no success.
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