FRISCO, Texas — When Tanesha Jones moved to Frisco from her native Chicago, she expected maybe a bit of southern culture shock. She did not expect scorpions. And she did not expect them to pay her regular visits.

"I usually see one a week, one or two a week," she said. "With me being from Chicago, I'm not used to this type of thing...it's like oh my God!"

She added sticky traps as her line of defense inside her front door and at doors leading to and from her garage.

"They come in and get stuck and they die," she said.

In the last few months, she says she trapped nearly a dozen as they crawled under her doors.

"Yeah, it's frightening to say the least," Jones said about the scorpion encounters. "I guess they're welcoming me to Texas. I'm a country girl at heart. I'm not too squeamish. T

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