There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him. In a better ...

The two dozen live spiders, scorpions and other animals are ... the show features a variety of non-deadly arachnid species from all over the world. That includes Guyana pink-toe tarantulas ...