'They're just out looking for love,' as one Houston Texas-based entomologist and spider expert, Dr. Lauren Davidson, put it. 'Let them go find a girlfriend.'
Dr. Ritch Reading, vice president of science and conservation at the Butterfly Pavilion: 'When we go down there, we see people on the roads, and these cars and trucks do move quite fast.'
Although the American tarantula is a venomous species, it tends to save its fatal toxins for prey like beetles, grasshoppers, and small lizards.
Dr. Reading cautioned, 'If a truck comes speeding at 65 to 70 miles an hour and you're on your hands and knees, you might not be able to evade that vehicle.'
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