DENVER (KDVR) — Soon, tarantulas will crawl across southeastern Colorado. While the critters can be spotted in many locations, they won’t be anywhere near Denver.

The tarantula “migration” is really a “mate-gration,” according to the Butterfly Pavilion. At the end of August, male tarantulas leave their burrows and scatter to find a female mate.

Often, females make their burrows in the Comanche National Grassland in the southeast corner of the state. Once these females have made their burrows, they stick close to them for the entirety of their lives, which can be 25 years long, according to the pavilion.

While this mate-gration involves thousands of spiders traveling across Colorado, residents of Denver shouldn’t be expecting any surprise visitors.

How close could tarantulas get to Denver?

The short answer: Not close at all.

Male tarantulas will be on the move, but the pavilion said their mate-gration is usually less than a mile. Meanwhile, the female tarantulas usually reside in the Comanche National Grassland, about 250 miles from Denver.

These tarantulas would have to make the equivalent of an over four-hour drive to pop up in Denver.

Tarantulas have been spotted in areas that aren’t the grasslands, like La Junta, Sierra Vista, Timpas and Vogel Canyon, according to the pavilion, but those areas are at the very least about 170 miles and almost a three-hour drive away.

For arachnophobes, there’s no reason to worry about creepy crawlers in the Mile High City. However, for tarantula enthusiasts, there are places in the state where you can drive to (or plan to avoid) during the tarantula’s mate-gration.