Scary Alert!! Arachnophobia ahead
03-13-2018, 08:03 AM
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Scary Alert!! Arachnophobia ahead
Are they really this big "Down Under"?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/13/massive-6-inch-hairy-spider-saved-from-mind-blowing-australian-flood.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/13/massive-6-inch-hairy-spider-saved-from-mind-blowing-australian-flood.html
Last edited by QuiltnNan; 03-13-2018 at 01:05 PM. Reason: correct link
03-14-2018, 04:22 AM
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Chasing Hawk--The link is wrong but I can tell you from personal experience, that the Huntsman spider can be as big as a soup bowl. They usually travel in pairs and are completely harmless, sitting still on a floor or wall, until they see a bug, then boy can they move!! I guess I should amend the 'completely harmless' because the couple of times I came in contact with one I sure jumped!!
03-14-2018, 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by charley26
Fox News does actual science shows?
Fox News has many science and history documentary series. And they are good, must be as my grands like watching them and they are documentary snobs. LOL
03-14-2018, 07:08 AM
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There are big spiders here in the US too. I lived in the Southwest for awhile, they have tarantulas there. Did you know that tarantula spiders migrate? They do. Every year during migration they would cross a road I regularly drove on. I would see one from quite aways away, and usually was able to swerve to miss it. The first year this happened I remember thinking, " I can't believe the spiders are big enough to see them crossing the road", and then thinking, "I can't believe I live where the spiders are big enough to see them crossing the road!"
03-14-2018, 07:48 AM
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And traffic stops to let them pass. At least that is what happened when I lived in southwest many, many years ago. I have a friend in Australia that has a big huntsman spider in her garage from time to time. All she does is take a broom and sweep it outside. Blech!
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