The wolf spider crossing your garage floor is probably a mother, and she's one of the more attentive mothers of the spider world.
Female wolf spiders carry their egg sac attached to their spinnerets until it hatches, then let the spiderlings climb onto their back and carry them there for days. They're among the only spider species that do this.
If you see a large wolf spider moving with what looks like a cluster of tiny dots on her abdomen, that's dozens of babies riding on their mother, which is either terrifying or remarkable depending on your disposition toward spiders.
While she's doing that, she's also hunting. Wolf spiders don't build webs. They chase prey, which makes them more effective pest controllers than most spiders you'll encounter.
Cockroaches, crickets, earwigs, beetles, ants: anything moving through the dark corners of your garage or basement is fair game. She's been working those corners since before you noticed her, and the pest population in your home is lower because of it.
She's venomous, technically, but the venom is designed for insects. A bite, which only happens if she's grabbed or trapped against skin, produces swelling and mild discomfort.
There's very little serious risk to a healthy adult, and she has no interest in biting you. Her default response to a human is to run in the opposite direction as fast as possible, which, if you've ever seen a wolf spider move, is pretty fast.
The spider you've been meaning to deal with is raising her young and hunting your pests simultaneously. Leave her to it.
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🚨A Palestinian child suffered a devastating head injury in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Despite severe trauma and extremely limited medical resources, doctors managed to save his life.
As documented by Dr. Jamal Salha, the child underwent emergency treatment after brain tissue had protruded from his skull. With operating rooms overwhelmed by casualties, the procedure was performed in the emergency room an extraordinary effort that saved him from death.
Flaco the Eurasian Owl escaped Central Park Zoo in February 2023 when an unknown person cut the stainless steel mesh of his enclosure. For a year, he survived among the Manhattan skyscrapers. In February 2024, he was found dead on a sidewalk.
The necropsy found four different rat poisons in his body.
We know Flaco's story because he had a name and a reputation, but unfortunately, this story plays out among hundreds, if not thousands of birds of prey every year.
A 2020 Tufts study found anticoagulant rodenticide in 100 percent of 43 red-tailed hawks tested across the northeastern US. In California, 92 percent of tested predatory birds showed exposure. In Massachusetts, 86 percent of dead raptors tested positive. In 2024, an entire great horned owl family in Lincoln Park died of rodenticide poisoning.
The mechanism is the same every time. A poisoned rat doesn't die right away. It takes up to ten days, stumbling around in the open, slow and easy to catch. The owl eats it. Then another. Then another. The poison accumulates up the food chain until it kills the animal that was doing your rodent control for free.
A barn owl family eats between 1,000 and 3,000 rodents a year at no cost to you. The rodenticide under your sink does the same job and kills the barn owl too.
Flaco survived a zoo escape, a Manhattan winter, and a year of hunting in one of the densest cities on Earth. The thing that killed him was the poison on the shelf of your local hardware store.
🚨 #Niger | #Tillabéri
L'État islamique a publié une vidéo de son attaque contre la base militaire d'Inatès, menée le 17 juin 2026 dans la région de Tillabéri.
Selon le groupe, l'assaut a débuté par un bombardement de la base à l'aide de roquettes Katyusha, avant un siège et un assaut menés avec différentes armes automatiques et lance-roquettes.
Le groupe affirme que les forces nigériennes n'ont résisté que peu de temps avant de se replier et de tomber dans des embuscades installées autour de la base. Il revendique la mort d'au moins 80 soldats, l'incendie de 7 véhicules blindés, 6 pick-up et 9 camions-citernes, ainsi que la saisie de 20 pick-up, 18 mitrailleuses, un fusil de précision, plusieurs lance-roquettes, un lance-roquettes multiple, 3 mortiers et d'importantes quantités de munitions.
Nb : NB : Lors de l'attaque menée par le JNIM ce 27 juin à Montchonkouy, dans la région de Dédougou (Burkina Faso), l'armée malienne a déployé deux avions de chasse pour frapper les combattants du JNIM et soutenir les forces burkinabè. En revanche, au Niger, lors de l'attaque d'Inates, pourtant située à proximité de la frontière malienne, aucune intervention militaire malienne n'a été observée, en raison d'un pacte de non-agression entre la junte de Bamako et l'EI-S.
« Ils ont la même mentalité criminelle » : un an après avoir remplacé Wagner, les Russes d’Africa Corps multiplient les exactions au Mali https://t.co/1n67i09QrH
İzzettin el Kassam Tugayları'nın toprağa gömdüğü patlayıcı sayesinde işgalci teröristlere ait tank infilak ediyor ve tankın içindeki patlayıcıların da patlaması sayesinde tamamen parçalanıyor
Tank içerisindeki teröristler de etkisiz hale geldiği ana ait iki farklı açıdan görüntü
Gazze halkı, Kassam Tugayları'nın saha komutanı Velid Mecdî Heniye'yi son yolculuğuna uğurladı. Velid, şehit lider İsmail Heniye'nin yeğeniydi.
📍 Gazze
🎥 26.06.2026
İzzettin el Kassam Tugayları mücahitleri ile Kudüs Tugayları mücahitlerinin ortaklaşa gerçekleştirdiği operasyon.
Bir binada bulunduğu tespit edilen işgalci teröristlere baskın yapıldı.
Baskında işgalci teröristler etkisiz hâle getirildi.
🇮🇱 Israeli D9 BULLDOZER Driver KILLED Under the Homes He Was Demolishing
A weaponized Caterpillar D9 was flattening homes in Gaza when one of the buildings collapsed onto it, burying the bulldozer and its driver in the rubble he created.
The same machine that has erased entire neighborhoods became a grave for the man steering it.