It’s Scorpion Season. Here’s What to Do if You See One.

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. Every true Texan has a scorpion story. My first one happened 25 years ago, when I was a naive new Austinite, having recently moved from the West Coast. I saw one climbing the wall in our bedroom, panicked, and sprayed it with an entire can of lemon-scented Pledge. I then bravely vacuumed up the arthropod, now shiny and smelling like the world’s worst limoncello, threw the vacuum cleaner outside with the creature still wriggling inside, and told my husband we were moving. He didn’t agree, which is why I have a second scorpion story. More on that later.There’s just…

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