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Texas Monthly – Texas Is Crawling With Wolf Spiders. Please Don’t Squish Them!

Texas Monthly – Texas Is Crawling With Wolf Spiders. Please Don’t Squish Them!

Posted on September 30, 2024

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. I have a confession to make. From June 2021 until the spring of 2023, I murdered dozens of innocent victims. I didn’t even bother to learn their names. As soon as one appeared, the closest shoe or magazine became a fatal weapon. All I knew was that these enemies were terrifying, mud-colored creatures, and they were everywhere: the garage, the porch, the grass, the shed. My MO was to eradicate them by any means necessary, because unless you are an arachnophile, spiders look scary, and therefore they must be squished. Cut to 2024, and I would not harm a wolf…

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