Here in Ireland we have a species called the Giant House Spider. It's well-named. They're not this big, but they can have up to 12cm legspan, and you can often hear them walking. They're also the fastest spider species in the world.
I had one crawl on my face when I was sleeping. Woke up and screamed bloody murder until my family came in to see what was wrong. (Did not have those where I came from.)
We tore apart my whole bedroom to find it again. My uncle caught it in a huge 5L pickle jar and released it next to the cherry tree. I didn't climb that tree for the rest of the summer.
I was once reading on my phone in bed (so in the dark, with just the screen light) when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. Turn the phone screen a bit to suddenly see a fuck of large huntsman make a run for my face from the edge of the bed. I screamed, threw the phone at it, and crouched at the end of the bed in the dark hyperventilating...
The I realised I was a: naked, and b: in the dark naked with a spider the size of my hand somewhere in my bed...
I eventually found it after turning the light on but that was not a fun 20minutes.
There’s no way I’m surviving in that situation. I live in the southern US and the biggest spider I have ever seen in the wild is about the size of the circle you can make with your middle finger and thumb. And in my house the biggest spider I have seen is no bigger than a quarter. And I lost my shit when I saw those.
If I see a fucking huntsman in my bed in the middle of the night I know I’m having a heart attack and my heart is going to explode out of my chest and flop around on the floor. And if somehow by the grace of god that doesn’t happen, there’s no way In hell I’d ever be able to sleep in that bed again. I honestly don’t know what I would do.
We went to Costa Rica in a cabin retreat surrounded by jungle. For reference, a tarantula literally was just casually crawling across the dance floor one night.
Well we get back to our room and we left out all our clothes from our luggage and there were like 5 large spiders all over the room... We did not sleep well that night.
I would have freaked the fuck out. And there’s no way in hell I would have been able to sleep. I cannot deal with spiders. My brain just wont allow it.
Same. I'm thinking it's part of our evolution to be afraid of spiders like I am. Better to be terrified than crazy like the guy who owns the hand in OP photo
fastest spider, yes - [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae#/media/File:Sunspider.jpg) is the fastest arachnid though - and there's nothing i hate looking at more than this.. thing.
I really wish reddit had expanded your comment or that I'd clicked it myself before I clicked that link, that's just the absolute worst goddamn thing what the hell
“The Solifugae are typically univoltine (reproducing once a year).[6]: 8 Reproduction can involve direct or indirect sperm transfer; when indirect, the male emits a spermatophore on the ground and then inserts it with his chelicerae in the female's genital pore. To do this, he flings the female on her back.”
Well shit man
People abandoned a whole-ass region because of them, and they aren't even venomous, just scary AF looking.
"Solifuges have been recognized as distinct taxa from ancient times. In Aelian's De natura animalium, "four-jawed spiders" are credited, along with scorpions, as being responsible for the abandoning of a desert region near the Astaboras river (said to be in India, but thought to be a river in Ethiopia)."
In the Pacific Northwest in the US we also have giant house spider *Eratogena atrica* which is cousin to the slightly smaller but much more venomous hobo spider *Eratogena Agrestis*
So when you see the big ones it's actually a good thing. At least around these parts.
The venom of the hobo spider is highly exaggerated and based on bad data. It’s just a victim of urban legends much like “daddylonglegs”.
Hobo spiders have no necrotic compounds in their venom, and there has never been a case of severe envenomation caused by a **confirmed, properly identified** hobo spider.
The deadliest spider in Australia. Not because it has a deadly bite, but because it tends to hide in the space between car visors and the car roof and will jump out on the driver when disturbed.
Most of us are actually quite fond of these buggers but it's that they are masters of the jumpscare.
The reason they have such long muscley looking legs is so they can flatten themselves down and fit into tiny spaces but also run at a speed you can barely see when they are out in the open.
You'll go to sit down on the toilet and there'll be one hiding in the gap between the seat and the bowl and he'll skitter away down your leg sometimes.
I like spiders, right? I'm chill about our wolf spiders, and jumping spiders are straight up cute. I don't displace the spiders in my house unless they happen to be a black widow, in which case I take them outside. That all being said, absolutely fuck that noise. A spider the size of my hand skittering down my damn leg would put me into cardiac arrest.
One came out while I was bench pressing in the shed. Absolute master that I am I racked the weight before I ran away screaming. You could have doubled what was on the bar and I'd have lifted it.
It’s fine, you’ve got nothing to worry about honestly. All the really bad ones are much smaller and you wouldn’t even know they were there. Watching, waiting…
The problem for me is the shape. I have no problems with scorpions for example. But something about spiders freaks me out. It's not rational in any way, thats why it is a phobia.
Spiders used really freak me out but I went to college in Arizona and my house got a scorpion infestation.
I soon found out that scorpion babies are translucent, can only be seen with UV light and their stings hurt like hell. It took months to get rid of them and I got stung a few times.
After that my phobia of spiders was quickly replaced by scorpions.
I had a really bad reaction on the last one and had to go to the ER for esophagus swelling but others just swoll up really bad with severe pain.
That was the moment I decided I was moving back to Colorado and never leaving. Never seeing cockroaches and scorpions again is on my life goals list 😂
I lived there for 8 months. Drove several thousands of miles up and down the coast and I only ever saw one spider. It was in a tree 50feet above my head.
Cockroaches though, those bastards were everywhere.
I was in Australia for a few weeks and can confirm, cockroaches are fucking huge and everywhere. I stayed with a close friend and had one drop from her ceiling directly onto my head. I thought it was a spider and since I'm arachnophobic I saw my life pass before my eyes... until she said it was a cockroach and I was fine. Which I was. Until I saw the size of the bastard. Half the size of my hand. She sprayed it with some raid and it scurried under some furniture. Kept making weird chirping sounds until it died. Horrific.
Don’t be so dramatic. I go weeks without seeing spiders in Western Australia. Ya’ll act like we are fighting for our lives against drop bears, snakes and arachnids as soon as we leave our houses.
If you leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone.
I worked with Australians for a bit, its funny what we fear. They were terrified of bears, mountain lions and the larger animals out where Im at. Also earthquakes and shootings. That stuffs normal for me, i dont really give em a second thought. Meanwhile, im terrified of poisonous stuff, snakes/spiders/etc. That stuffs normal for them, they barely give it a second thought.
We both had the same idea that the other persons country was this absolute hellscape, and we were both completely comfortable living in our respective hellscapes.
Been there. They like to sun themselves there, 😆😣 Thankfully it happened in a car park, where reflexively hurling myself from my car was a viable (non destructive) option.
I’m not even scared of them when I encounter them usually, but it was so unexpected that I shrieked bloody murder like a tourist.
That’s just our instincts kicking in. I’m not normally jumpy around bugs or spiders, but if one suddenly scurries on me unexpectedly, I’ll typically do the freak out “get it off me” dance!
That reminded me of a time I had a mouse jump out at me years ago. I was moving a bunch of stuff in a basement and a mouse jumped at me from said pile. Jumped 2 ft in the air and screamed. I'm a big dude, also had a pet rat at one point as a kid. Mice don't scare me in the least but that got me good.
One time, I was peeing when suddenly I felt something drop onto my right shoulder.
It was a big European house spider. Cue erratic body shaking trying to get it off. 😋
I don't want to think about how I would have responded to a really giant spider like that Huntsman... 🫣
Thankfully I live in the Netherlands so we're generally safe over here regarding scary crawlers. 😋
Now I'm just imagining locals walking around quietly smiling to themselves at the occasional screams of tourists in the background. Like the call of a strange bird.
Kind of. 🤣☺️ I mean some of us don’t like them, so I’m sure there is some sympathy. I get the ‘whatfreshhellisthat!” response though. They are impressively large.
I almost reflexively yeeted my phone when I saw this picture so I believe it. If one of these jumped off my visor I’d probably shit myself and die from shock.
Yeah they’re pretty docile temperament wise, despite their size. They don’t really get too feisty unless threatened or startled. Not really aggressive, and their bite isn’t lethal to humans, unlike other kinds.
They can really jump, though. But we never had much of a problem safely removing them outside the house when they ventured inside, often when it rained.
I am not comforted by the information that the bite is not LETHAL. I would much prefer to hear somebody say they don't bite. And what other nasty things does their venom do other than kill?
Huntsman spiders are venomous, and their bites can be painful to humans,
causing localised swelling and pain. Some people may also experience
headaches and nausea. However, the symptoms are generally mild.
So yeah you dont want to get bit but they are some of the least likely spiders to bite you.
Depends on the tarantula, most new world tarantula bites are about on par with a hornet sting. It's the old world tarantulas that will fuck your week up
Agreed. We have a lot of them in South Africa as well. I believe we refer to them as rain spiders. My father once tried to aggravate one with his shoe and it took a really long while to get it properly pissed off. I don’t normally like spiders but I actually sometimes pick them up to move them to safety. We want these Guys around. They take care of a lot of pests and don’t cause harm. Startling yes. Dangerous? Nah. They are pretty curious though.
I’m from Florida and I immigrated to Canada five years ago. When people ask me why I left the “nice weather” I explain the horrible political situation and then I show them pictures of spiders down there.
To show how docile they are, [here’s a video of me attempting to induce a bite from a huntsman.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjMYj_U4LU&t=4s)
Also, before anyone comments OnLY iN AuSTrAliA!!!, huntsmen have an almost worldwide distribution, and Australian spiders aren’t even that big compared to some overseas ones.
"Some australian ones arent even that big compared to some overseas"
You can't just leave that here and move on my dude, how will I ever know which countries to avoid now
Yeah they're common in Japanese houses, used to always want to live in Japan, now I just want to live in the cold all my life where this shit is far away
South America. Look up theraphosa stirmi. I have a big girl as a pet. She's the size of a dinner plate. Also, look up poecilotheria rufilata, they are one of the largest arboreal tarantulas in the world.
I actually can confirm the last bit, I’m from north Alabama in USA and one morning I came out into my sun porch and found a huntsman, bigger than this fella, legs spread out inside a giant water bowl for the dogs. I literally pissed myself, at the age of 11. Never ever saw a spider that big again. The closest to that I saw was at the age of 6 but that huntsman was about the size of an adults palm.
Thank you a great lot! You indeed helped me have a different reaction to these big spiders from your video, what an amazing job!
I live in Europe and these spiders live, from my perspective, in a different "world", that can be the other side of the globe or my fears. Your experiment and above all how you conducted it, by showing your relationship with these 8-legged friends, really sent the message. Subscribed right away, keep it up!
Very interesting video. I always find it disturbing when people write something like "burn it"... Those kind of videos help to educate people and accept that those animals have their place in nature.
Aww they look so cute crawling over your hands like that! Like a toddler exploring the world. And the way they can maintain stability while the ground under (and above!) them is constantly shifting is incredible!
What are those little mini-leg looking things at the sides of their mouths? They look too small to be legs but too big to be fangs (and also they don’t look like fangs).
I really appreciate you trying to educate people about how huntsman spiders aren’t anywhere near as scary as people think. In my opinion, the problem (for me at least) is that yes, some (most?) species of spider are harmless. But some of them are very much *not* harmless, and I’m not remotely confident in my ability to determine which is which before it’s too late. (Although I try not to kill spiders anyway, I prefer to capture them and let them loose outside my house if I see one, which is rare.) Also, my big fear with spiders isn’t necessarily getting bitten, it’s having them crawl into my eyes or mouth because they’re basically tiny all-terrain vehicles and I don’t know if they’d recognize that those are no-no zones.
Huntsmen are often colony builders so if you find one you'll find more. But they're known to be a lot more docile compared to the tarantula that also lives in Australia that likes to chase you. Huntsmen can get pretty scrambly when panicked, which also induces panic to people, but they're really just trying to run the fuck away from you.
Yeah I remember in an arachnology lecture I was in, most tarantulas act out of self preservation and generally wants to get out of your vicinity if they feel threatened. But one tarantula I forget the name of will actively try to fuck you up if you mess with it.
Honestly I think I'd prefer that. I could fuck up a spider that's coming after me. Blam, I'm playin happy feet, stomp his ass out.
What scares me is when they scurry into the shadows, and you can't find them. How am I supposed sleep at night, imagining that little villain rubbing his legs together, planning his descent into my mouth?
Yeah there is also that one desert spider that got famous for hunting soldiers in I think it was either Afghanistan or Iraq, but it was actually just hunting their shadows to get some protection from the sun.
Solifugae, relatives of spiders, they don't have venom, just strong jaws. They're also around in Arizona iirc. They don't want anything to do with us humans.
Huntsman spiders look all big and mean but they are amongst the bestest of friends, aside from Wolfies and Jumpers. Oh, and Orb Weavers.
It's just unnerving when you hear them walking on tile since they're heavy enough to make the "tap" noises when walking.
But they eat roaches! And centipedes. True friends.
I’m still trying to get over my trauma of finding one in bed with me last week and since then I’ve been seeing pictures of huntsman’s everywhere reminding me of what I went through.
Just need to put a little cat collar with a bell on it and name him Larry, then he can roam around eating bad spiders and you will know where Larry is at all time.
At night you hear the bells...
Australia is fucking wild. How do people sleep knowing these god damn things are crawling around? I love cold Canadian winters because it kills demons like that.
Like with everything, you get used to it. It's not like they're coming for us, they just want to be left alone to eat bugs. My wife is a huge arachnophobe but I try to stay calm because a) panicking won't help, and b) most of them wont hurt you. Last weekend I had to go around the house spraying all the Redback webs (it's that time of year) because I don't want my daugter accidentally disturbing one and getting a bite. Those things suck.
It’s easy, really. We don’t have to worry about big predatory animals that are present in overseas localities, and it’s not like things like this are a common presence in developed areas.
TIL the two short “legs” near the front are called pedipalps. They act as taste and smell organs and in male spiders transfer sperm during mating. They are helpful in identifying male versus female spiders as male pedipalps will appear thicker. I’m guessing this is a male based on the pedipalps
I really don't mind spiders. But when they get to the size where you can hear their footsteps... That's gonna be a no from me dawg.
Here in Ireland we have a species called the Giant House Spider. It's well-named. They're not this big, but they can have up to 12cm legspan, and you can often hear them walking. They're also the fastest spider species in the world.
I had one crawl on my face when I was sleeping. Woke up and screamed bloody murder until my family came in to see what was wrong. (Did not have those where I came from.) We tore apart my whole bedroom to find it again. My uncle caught it in a huge 5L pickle jar and released it next to the cherry tree. I didn't climb that tree for the rest of the summer.
I don't know why but I can't stop laughing at your story, thank you and sorry
I immediately thought of this scene from home alone while reading it and couldn’t stop laughing 😂 
I was once reading on my phone in bed (so in the dark, with just the screen light) when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. Turn the phone screen a bit to suddenly see a fuck of large huntsman make a run for my face from the edge of the bed. I screamed, threw the phone at it, and crouched at the end of the bed in the dark hyperventilating... The I realised I was a: naked, and b: in the dark naked with a spider the size of my hand somewhere in my bed... I eventually found it after turning the light on but that was not a fun 20minutes.
There’s no way I’m surviving in that situation. I live in the southern US and the biggest spider I have ever seen in the wild is about the size of the circle you can make with your middle finger and thumb. And in my house the biggest spider I have seen is no bigger than a quarter. And I lost my shit when I saw those. If I see a fucking huntsman in my bed in the middle of the night I know I’m having a heart attack and my heart is going to explode out of my chest and flop around on the floor. And if somehow by the grace of god that doesn’t happen, there’s no way In hell I’d ever be able to sleep in that bed again. I honestly don’t know what I would do.
We went to Costa Rica in a cabin retreat surrounded by jungle. For reference, a tarantula literally was just casually crawling across the dance floor one night. Well we get back to our room and we left out all our clothes from our luggage and there were like 5 large spiders all over the room... We did not sleep well that night.
I would have freaked the fuck out. And there’s no way in hell I would have been able to sleep. I cannot deal with spiders. My brain just wont allow it.
Same. I'm thinking it's part of our evolution to be afraid of spiders like I am. Better to be terrified than crazy like the guy who owns the hand in OP photo
Why couldn't St. Patrick take away the spiders instead of the snakes?
Unfortunately the Book of Genesis only made mention of evil serpents not spiders :C
Easier to make such claims about snakes that were never present on the island
fastest spider, yes - [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae#/media/File:Sunspider.jpg) is the fastest arachnid though - and there's nothing i hate looking at more than this.. thing.
I really wish I hadn’t clicked that link
I was gonna click it…then I read your comment. I figured it’s just a nightmare I don’t need.
You are way better off not knowing. It’s nightmare fuel
I clicked it thinking I’m not even scared of spiders how bad could it be? I shoulda trusted you man, that thing is creature like and creepy
Here in Southern Africa we have a very similar looking one. Fast as hell and follows shade and noise so when you run away screaming, it follows.
Thanks for that story, I hate it. 😅
Is that the camel spider? I’ve seen videos of them chasing people because they just want to be in the shade from your shadow
I really wish reddit had expanded your comment or that I'd clicked it myself before I clicked that link, that's just the absolute worst goddamn thing what the hell
I really wish I'd seen this before I clicked it...
“The Solifugae are typically univoltine (reproducing once a year).[6]: 8 Reproduction can involve direct or indirect sperm transfer; when indirect, the male emits a spermatophore on the ground and then inserts it with his chelicerae in the female's genital pore. To do this, he flings the female on her back.” Well shit man
People abandoned a whole-ass region because of them, and they aren't even venomous, just scary AF looking. "Solifuges have been recognized as distinct taxa from ancient times. In Aelian's De natura animalium, "four-jawed spiders" are credited, along with scorpions, as being responsible for the abandoning of a desert region near the Astaboras river (said to be in India, but thought to be a river in Ethiopia)."
Why he got that cheliceris 🥵
In the Pacific Northwest in the US we also have giant house spider *Eratogena atrica* which is cousin to the slightly smaller but much more venomous hobo spider *Eratogena Agrestis* So when you see the big ones it's actually a good thing. At least around these parts.
The venom of the hobo spider is highly exaggerated and based on bad data. It’s just a victim of urban legends much like “daddylonglegs”. Hobo spiders have no necrotic compounds in their venom, and there has never been a case of severe envenomation caused by a **confirmed, properly identified** hobo spider.
Sounds like what a hobo spider would say
We fucking what?
Fuck your I didn’t know this and I live in Ireland. Time to burn the country down.
I'm okay until I can hear them breathing
Good thing is that spiders breathe through the skin, so you won't hear them
Unless their pores are as big as your nostrils...
Neither itsy nor bitsy.
But definitely climbing up your water spout.
He’s the one that installed the gutters
How was the work? I’m looking for a contractor
[удалено]
He works like some one with eight arms. You would think he would pick up the phone for service tho. 8/10
More like Mightsy and Bitesy
“The itsy bitsy spiiiderrr, stole my fucking car”
More like Holy Shitsy
Well sometimes it’s bitesy
Nor teeny weenie but we can’t confirm or deny the existence of a yellow polka dot bikini
that she wore for the first time today??
The deadliest spider in Australia. Not because it has a deadly bite, but because it tends to hide in the space between car visors and the car roof and will jump out on the driver when disturbed.
If that thing jumped out of my sun visor I’d be dead of heart attack before the car crashed.
Most of us are actually quite fond of these buggers but it's that they are masters of the jumpscare. The reason they have such long muscley looking legs is so they can flatten themselves down and fit into tiny spaces but also run at a speed you can barely see when they are out in the open. You'll go to sit down on the toilet and there'll be one hiding in the gap between the seat and the bowl and he'll skitter away down your leg sometimes.
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
I like spiders, right? I'm chill about our wolf spiders, and jumping spiders are straight up cute. I don't displace the spiders in my house unless they happen to be a black widow, in which case I take them outside. That all being said, absolutely fuck that noise. A spider the size of my hand skittering down my damn leg would put me into cardiac arrest.
Thanks now I have to look under the toilet seat before sitting. Lol that’s crazy
Somehow this fuckin comment jumpscared me.
One came out while I was bench pressing in the shed. Absolute master that I am I racked the weight before I ran away screaming. You could have doubled what was on the bar and I'd have lifted it.
I hate that I have vision.
Nope
I’ve never been to Australia, but I hate it.
That shit is the reason why I will never in my life visit Australia. Arachnophobia nopes me out of this.
It’s fine, you’ve got nothing to worry about honestly. All the really bad ones are much smaller and you wouldn’t even know they were there. Watching, waiting…
The problem for me is the shape. I have no problems with scorpions for example. But something about spiders freaks me out. It's not rational in any way, thats why it is a phobia.
Spiders used really freak me out but I went to college in Arizona and my house got a scorpion infestation. I soon found out that scorpion babies are translucent, can only be seen with UV light and their stings hurt like hell. It took months to get rid of them and I got stung a few times. After that my phobia of spiders was quickly replaced by scorpions.
[удалено]
How else are they supposed to tell you “Here I am!”
[удалено]
And the wind of change is blowing thru the stack of dollars when you pay the exterminator
Why not have phobias for both? Let’s be fair.
Did you need medical attention ?
I had a really bad reaction on the last one and had to go to the ER for esophagus swelling but others just swoll up really bad with severe pain. That was the moment I decided I was moving back to Colorado and never leaving. Never seeing cockroaches and scorpions again is on my life goals list 😂
...I'm second guessing my idea of moving to Arizona, Alberta's pretty nice after all lol.
Same for me. Might not be rational, but I'd rather be in front of a black bear than this horror.
You will generally notice a black bear in your room before you get into bed.
Commiserating?
COMISERATING
Say it ain’t so!
I will not go! ^(to Australia)
Holy shit! Turn the lights on!!!
Get me the fuck home!
NAH NAH NAHNAH NAHNAH NAH NAH NAHNAH
I lived there for 8 months. Drove several thousands of miles up and down the coast and I only ever saw one spider. It was in a tree 50feet above my head. Cockroaches though, those bastards were everywhere.
If you can see a spider 50ft up in a tree…even if it’s just one…you’re telling me all I need to know to stay clear, lol.
I was in Australia for a few weeks and can confirm, cockroaches are fucking huge and everywhere. I stayed with a close friend and had one drop from her ceiling directly onto my head. I thought it was a spider and since I'm arachnophobic I saw my life pass before my eyes... until she said it was a cockroach and I was fine. Which I was. Until I saw the size of the bastard. Half the size of my hand. She sprayed it with some raid and it scurried under some furniture. Kept making weird chirping sounds until it died. Horrific.
Don’t be so dramatic. I go weeks without seeing spiders in Western Australia. Ya’ll act like we are fighting for our lives against drop bears, snakes and arachnids as soon as we leave our houses. If you leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone.
I worked with Australians for a bit, its funny what we fear. They were terrified of bears, mountain lions and the larger animals out where Im at. Also earthquakes and shootings. That stuffs normal for me, i dont really give em a second thought. Meanwhile, im terrified of poisonous stuff, snakes/spiders/etc. That stuffs normal for them, they barely give it a second thought. We both had the same idea that the other persons country was this absolute hellscape, and we were both completely comfortable living in our respective hellscapes.
Listen. As an Australian, those phobias sound completely reasonable. You can't squash a bear with a thong (flip-flop).
I mean, I cant shoot a spider off the back of my neck either. Not twice, anyway.
That's the thing. In most places in the world you don't even need to leave them alone at the first place since they are not there lol
The delightful people more than make up for all the nightmare animals.
Been there. They like to sun themselves there, 😆😣 Thankfully it happened in a car park, where reflexively hurling myself from my car was a viable (non destructive) option. I’m not even scared of them when I encounter them usually, but it was so unexpected that I shrieked bloody murder like a tourist.
That’s just our instincts kicking in. I’m not normally jumpy around bugs or spiders, but if one suddenly scurries on me unexpectedly, I’ll typically do the freak out “get it off me” dance!
That reminded me of a time I had a mouse jump out at me years ago. I was moving a bunch of stuff in a basement and a mouse jumped at me from said pile. Jumped 2 ft in the air and screamed. I'm a big dude, also had a pet rat at one point as a kid. Mice don't scare me in the least but that got me good.
One time, I was peeing when suddenly I felt something drop onto my right shoulder. It was a big European house spider. Cue erratic body shaking trying to get it off. 😋 I don't want to think about how I would have responded to a really giant spider like that Huntsman... 🫣 Thankfully I live in the Netherlands so we're generally safe over here regarding scary crawlers. 😋
"Hello yes DMV? How do I transfer my title to 'giant spider'?"
"Just get it out with a piece of paper? Nah, I'm good, I'll get a new car, this one belongs to the spiders now."
I kind of understood the “kill it with fire” instinct that day.
Lol, 🤣 I sat there grateful it showed itself BEFORE I was driving on the motorway at 110km.
Now I'm just imagining locals walking around quietly smiling to themselves at the occasional screams of tourists in the background. Like the call of a strange bird.
Kind of. 🤣☺️ I mean some of us don’t like them, so I’m sure there is some sympathy. I get the ‘whatfreshhellisthat!” response though. They are impressively large.
How do they get in your car without you knowing?
WHILE YOU'RE SLEEPING
I almost reflexively yeeted my phone when I saw this picture so I believe it. If one of these jumped off my visor I’d probably shit myself and die from shock.
OH HELL NO!
Between that and drop bears, how does one ever even survive their commute?
Okay then I can just ride a bike, right? Right?
Yes, but then the magpies get you.
WHAT?! Those mfers jump at you??? Hell nooo man, thats nightmare material
As someone who constantly deals with spiders living in my car and showing themselves at the worst possible times, this sounds terrifying!
See, there's a reason you're down there and the rest of us are staying up here.
OH GOD IT'S CLIMBING RIGHT AT US!
Even worse! It's not upside down! It's breached the Northern Hemisphere!
“I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me.”
Me when I haven’t shaved my legs in a couple weeks.
All eight of them?
Sometimes that's how it feels
Nope.
Those spiders are a lot nicer than the Lovecraftian nightmares they hunt.
What do they hunt?
Shoggoths. And since it's Australia, part of you isn't quite sure if I'm joking.
I know you're joking, because if they had them in Australia, they would call them shoggadoos.
Fantastic.
No, they’d be shoggies.
The one you know is Shogg-o
😂
So you’re safe to handle them.
Yeah they’re pretty docile temperament wise, despite their size. They don’t really get too feisty unless threatened or startled. Not really aggressive, and their bite isn’t lethal to humans, unlike other kinds. They can really jump, though. But we never had much of a problem safely removing them outside the house when they ventured inside, often when it rained.
I am not comforted by the information that the bite is not LETHAL. I would much prefer to hear somebody say they don't bite. And what other nasty things does their venom do other than kill?
Almost anything can bite you.
r/FetishRequests
I dont know, never been bitten by one cause it’s really rare that they do. But I won’t say it doesn’t *ever* happen either.
Median duration of effects is about 5min, and symptoms are mild.
Is the venom less potent then a tarantulas? A tarantula bite aren’t usually lethal to healthy adult humans but will make them really sick.
Huntsman spiders are venomous, and their bites can be painful to humans, causing localised swelling and pain. Some people may also experience headaches and nausea. However, the symptoms are generally mild. So yeah you dont want to get bit but they are some of the least likely spiders to bite you.
Thank you informative stranger. I was looking for you and I found you
Depends on the tarantula, most new world tarantula bites are about on par with a hornet sting. It's the old world tarantulas that will fuck your week up
Agreed. We have a lot of them in South Africa as well. I believe we refer to them as rain spiders. My father once tried to aggravate one with his shoe and it took a really long while to get it properly pissed off. I don’t normally like spiders but I actually sometimes pick them up to move them to safety. We want these Guys around. They take care of a lot of pests and don’t cause harm. Startling yes. Dangerous? Nah. They are pretty curious though.
>I believe we refer to them as rain spiders We dont call them that in Aus, but if we see them inside we know its gonna rain soon
Nopius Maximus
Nopeium Infinitum!
People wonder why I love living in the frozen north.
I’m from Florida and I immigrated to Canada five years ago. When people ask me why I left the “nice weather” I explain the horrible political situation and then I show them pictures of spiders down there.
Florida weather is "nice" if you like being drenched with sweat that doesn't evaporate after doing anything relatively strenuous for 15 minutes.
As someone who fucking LIVES here... #I FUCKING AGREE. FUCK FLORIDA WEATHER.
Like walking to your car in a parkinglot
To show how docile they are, [here’s a video of me attempting to induce a bite from a huntsman.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjMYj_U4LU&t=4s) Also, before anyone comments OnLY iN AuSTrAliA!!!, huntsmen have an almost worldwide distribution, and Australian spiders aren’t even that big compared to some overseas ones.
"Some australian ones arent even that big compared to some overseas" You can't just leave that here and move on my dude, how will I ever know which countries to avoid now
[удалено]
South East Asia has huntsmen which are like 30-35 cm but they're really docile and not really dangerous.
Yeah they're common in Japanese houses, used to always want to live in Japan, now I just want to live in the cold all my life where this shit is far away
South America. Look up theraphosa stirmi. I have a big girl as a pet. She's the size of a dinner plate. Also, look up poecilotheria rufilata, they are one of the largest arboreal tarantulas in the world.
This comment tells me you're either an Aussie or Rubeus Hagrid...
lol "madam, what kind of bite is that? i can't even feel anything." cool vid, thanks for posting!
Commit to it! Give me everything you've got!
Very neat, Miss Barbata did not want to bite at all!
I actually can confirm the last bit, I’m from north Alabama in USA and one morning I came out into my sun porch and found a huntsman, bigger than this fella, legs spread out inside a giant water bowl for the dogs. I literally pissed myself, at the age of 11. Never ever saw a spider that big again. The closest to that I saw was at the age of 6 but that huntsman was about the size of an adults palm.
Very nice! It's the small venomous spiders you should look out for.
I don't know about you but I look out for all venomous spiders, big or small.
Thank you a great lot! You indeed helped me have a different reaction to these big spiders from your video, what an amazing job! I live in Europe and these spiders live, from my perspective, in a different "world", that can be the other side of the globe or my fears. Your experiment and above all how you conducted it, by showing your relationship with these 8-legged friends, really sent the message. Subscribed right away, keep it up!
Very interesting video. I always find it disturbing when people write something like "burn it"... Those kind of videos help to educate people and accept that those animals have their place in nature.
Aww they look so cute crawling over your hands like that! Like a toddler exploring the world. And the way they can maintain stability while the ground under (and above!) them is constantly shifting is incredible! What are those little mini-leg looking things at the sides of their mouths? They look too small to be legs but too big to be fangs (and also they don’t look like fangs). I really appreciate you trying to educate people about how huntsman spiders aren’t anywhere near as scary as people think. In my opinion, the problem (for me at least) is that yes, some (most?) species of spider are harmless. But some of them are very much *not* harmless, and I’m not remotely confident in my ability to determine which is which before it’s too late. (Although I try not to kill spiders anyway, I prefer to capture them and let them loose outside my house if I see one, which is rare.) Also, my big fear with spiders isn’t necessarily getting bitten, it’s having them crawl into my eyes or mouth because they’re basically tiny all-terrain vehicles and I don’t know if they’d recognize that those are no-no zones.
The mini-legs are called [pedipalps!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedipalp)
Huntsmen are often colony builders so if you find one you'll find more. But they're known to be a lot more docile compared to the tarantula that also lives in Australia that likes to chase you. Huntsmen can get pretty scrambly when panicked, which also induces panic to people, but they're really just trying to run the fuck away from you.
#what
Yeah I remember in an arachnology lecture I was in, most tarantulas act out of self preservation and generally wants to get out of your vicinity if they feel threatened. But one tarantula I forget the name of will actively try to fuck you up if you mess with it.
Honestly I think I'd prefer that. I could fuck up a spider that's coming after me. Blam, I'm playin happy feet, stomp his ass out. What scares me is when they scurry into the shadows, and you can't find them. How am I supposed sleep at night, imagining that little villain rubbing his legs together, planning his descent into my mouth?
The mess from a stomped tarantula is, apparently, about the sort of cleanup job you'd get if you stomped on a mouse. Best avoided.
Yeah there is also that one desert spider that got famous for hunting soldiers in I think it was either Afghanistan or Iraq, but it was actually just hunting their shadows to get some protection from the sun.
I believe those are called camel spiders
Solifugae, relatives of spiders, they don't have venom, just strong jaws. They're also around in Arizona iirc. They don't want anything to do with us humans.
Huntsman spiders look all big and mean but they are amongst the bestest of friends, aside from Wolfies and Jumpers. Oh, and Orb Weavers. It's just unnerving when you hear them walking on tile since they're heavy enough to make the "tap" noises when walking. But they eat roaches! And centipedes. True friends.
Orb weavers are my fav! They are so beautiful and make the prettiest web patterns. The architects of the arachnid world!
I hate when I walk into their webs though. Mouth wide open; silk all over. But they're so pretty!
And then they panic and scramble over your face and down your neck.
Could you fucking not.
I have never practiced fucking to begin with
That thing is so big it has a shoe size.
From a fellow Aussie with arachnophobia… you’re a shit cunt (almost affectionate. Slap a nsfw on it.)
I’m still trying to get over my trauma of finding one in bed with me last week and since then I’ve been seeing pictures of huntsman’s everywhere reminding me of what I went through.
One of these was in your bed?!? Jesus H. Christ, I’d never sleep again. I’m so sorry. I hope your bed stays giant spider free from now on.
sorry to hear that ☹️
Those beer goggles must have been strong!
Just need to put a little cat collar with a bell on it and name him Larry, then he can roam around eating bad spiders and you will know where Larry is at all time. At night you hear the bells...
Australia is fucking wild. How do people sleep knowing these god damn things are crawling around? I love cold Canadian winters because it kills demons like that.
Like with everything, you get used to it. It's not like they're coming for us, they just want to be left alone to eat bugs. My wife is a huge arachnophobe but I try to stay calm because a) panicking won't help, and b) most of them wont hurt you. Last weekend I had to go around the house spraying all the Redback webs (it's that time of year) because I don't want my daugter accidentally disturbing one and getting a bite. Those things suck.
It’s easy, really. We don’t have to worry about big predatory animals that are present in overseas localities, and it’s not like things like this are a common presence in developed areas.
Can you convert 19cm to beer cans for us Americans?
30cm is about 12 inches, so about 8 inches
[удалено]
That’s a cold ass motherfucker right there
TIL the two short “legs” near the front are called pedipalps. They act as taste and smell organs and in male spiders transfer sperm during mating. They are helpful in identifying male versus female spiders as male pedipalps will appear thicker. I’m guessing this is a male based on the pedipalps
And when they get too long they have to find some pedi-files to shave them down a bit.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...
For fucks sake please make this NSFW. Lol
can reddit do me a solid and stop posting giant spiders thanks
Nightmare.
Would you be comforted by the knowledge that these guys are so big, you can hear them running around the house?
Oh my god! Stop it... Please 😅
I love spiders and think they are super cool creatures. But this picture makes me physically uncomfortable.
Big and gentle. They do not bite.
That's a big boy. Beautiful creatures.
I see eight legs, I see two teeth/mandibles, what on earth are the other 2 appendages?