I haven't played ACWW for 2 months, or so said one of the characters after I started playing the game 2 days ago. I started playing it because I read this thread and I was all excited that I could catch a Tarantula.
Yesterday I caught 2 of them within 30 minutes, they are so freaking easy to catch. I did see 3 Tarantulas, but I only saw the first one when it attacked me and I didn't hear anything because there were other characters walking around and so there was too much ambient noise to hear it and notice it, so it just jumped at me lol.
Here's how I caught the other 2, once I spot one at a distance I circled around it until I was facing it's rear and that way it can't see me, so I just grab my net walk at normal speed towards it and zap, it's in the net, and as I walked towards it it didn't even move. I did the same thing for my 2nd Tarantula.
Also yesterday I caught some other interesting stuff, I caught a SeaHorse, a ClownFish, a Mosquito, a Darner Dragonfly, a Bird Wing Butterfly, a Moth, a Rainbow Stag, and a FireFly . So is there anything else that is interesting to catch? A Shark perhaps?