Oh they're great swimmers. They're so hairy that it gives them lots of buoyancy!
This post is for the lovely and gracious 
Yeah we got more tarantulas here than we know what to do with. And they're increasing. Well shoot, they lay a thousand eggs at a time so what do you expect? lol. They love the climate here apparently so they're thriving.
There's so much pasture and grassland here and they love that and the warm climate. Lucky us. I'm sure they do some good like maybe they eat mosquitoes!
No, I just looked it up. They only eat large insects like crickets and grasshoppers. And sometimes the occasional cat. No I'm just kidding about the cat!
We got two main types here. The Mexican Red Knee:
And the plain old ugly Texas Brown Tarantula which grow to have leg spans of over 4 inches:
Experts are warning Texans that if they swim in a pond or lake to be on the lookout for them, especially with the increase in population. We got over a thousand people a day moving here and now we got tarantulas moving in too?
They aren't venomous, they just freak people out. It IS pretty creepy to see them swimming. It's more like they're walking on water. Check out this video:
Thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas
PS- I found a couple more vending machines that I find interesting:
This one sells different sizes of gold bars and also sells gold coins.
I assume they are in highly secure locations like 5 Star hotels. There's only 20 of them in the world.
Then this one, it's a great idea. They've sprung up all over Europe but some U.S. states don't allow the sale of raw milk.
