Southern California. It jumps. Lost legs unfortunately trying to catch it. Released outside.

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    4 months ago

    Oh you’re in for a fun spider fact now!

    In German (and probably more European languages) we have a spider called the “Tarantel” (Lycosa tarantula) which is one of the largest wolf spiders (and just general largest spider) in Europe.

    So the entire family of tarantulas (in English) got their name from a wolf spider initially. Probably named by European explorers that didn’t know any better