>>76960268Fun fact: The word "tarantula" is actually derived from the city of Taranto in Southern Italy. It was originally used to refer to a local species of wolf spider whose bite was said to cause tarantism (hysterical dancing), but it eventually spread throughout Europe as a word referring to any large ground-dwelling spiders, and was then applied to what we call tarantulas today by European explorers when they visited the New World.
