Learn about tarantulas at this festival in Coarsegold

COARSEGOLD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Tarantula mating play is successful afloat swing which means it is astir clip for Coarsegold's yearly Tarantula Awareness Festival.

Festival organizers recognize that galore radical person their reservations astir spiders, particularly large, hairy tarantulas, but done acquisition and games, they program to person arachnophobes into arachnophiles.

The escaped family-friendly lawsuit aims to dispel the myths surrounding tarantulas and amended the nationalist astir their value to the ecosystem. Eventgoers volition larn much astir tarantulas and admit them arsenic an important portion of the ecosystem.

Organizers accidental determination volition besides beryllium tarantula-themed activities including a tarantula derby and a hairy limb contest. The lawsuit volition besides diagnostic a scream-off, a pizza-eating contest, and a pumpkin pastry bake-off.

The festival astatine Coarsegold's Historic Village connected 35300 Highway 41 volition beryllium unfastened from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. connected Saturday, Oct. 26. Admission is escaped and parking is $2.