About a month ago, the local media hyped a clickbait story about an annual tarantula mating migration through Oklahoma.
For example:
Yep, you heard that right! Lock your doors and shut the windows – hundreds of tarantulas are about to migrate through Oklahoma this fall, which according to my crack math, equates to one for every 350 square miles.
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Knowing the odds of seeing an actual tarantula in Oklahoma are incredibly small, I guess you can’t blame Channel 25 for excitedly sharing a picture of one that a viewer sent to them. The only problem – it wasn’t a tarantula.