Spiders are just innately creepy, and big, hairy spiders are exponentially creepier.
Among the most common — and the creepiest because they are large, fuzzy and all around us — are the wolf spiders. If wolf spiders only understood how much they intimidate us, they could probably displace us as the dominant life form.
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