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When I was living in Tucson we went down to the pool at night (townhouse complex) in bare feet. We came back, and found out that it was the one night in the previous five years that the male tarantulas decided to come down from the mountains to find mates. They were EVERYWHERE and it was fricken dark! The next day we found a baby (about 3" long) inside the house, even though we hadn't left any doors open. There was one crawling up the patio wall that was about 6" across, but it just left after a while. We kept the baby in a little terrarium and fed it crickets, but it only lived for a few months before it died.
The people in the area said they had never seen it before. It was like a big spider every few feet on black pavement, like that movie Kingdom of the Spiders. We didn't kill any, though.
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