Scary Alert!! Arachnophobia ahead
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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
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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!!
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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!"
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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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