Any spiders in my house should be scared, I keep a good supply of spider predators - http://australianmuseum.net.au/daddy-long-legs-spider

Actually I usually have some Huntsman spiders around too, and I think they eat other spiders too.

Show the damned thing a Huntsman Spider and it'll be on the next boat to Antarctica.

Nope, its a little bit worse....huntsman spiders dont have venom that can harm humans all that much.

This little fucker however can kill you dead.

Brazillian Wandering Spider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_wandering_spider

Poor little fellow, I would've relocated him outside. I do a lot of spider relocations, my family even make me evict the gorgeous little huntsman spiders

As a fellow Aussie I think this is hilarious.

Although, I have come across, in the wild:
Tiger snakes
Copperhead snakes
Scorpions
Red back spiders
Funnelweb spiders
Whitetail spiders (These give nasty fricken bites)
Huntsman spiders (These don't hurt you, but get damn big)
um...

Oh, and by wild, for the spiders, I mean in my house.

Wombats? Lots of those, they can hurt if they bite you.... but they're so cute.

Um... a gazillion bloody possums, but yeah, not the most dangerous of animals

So, um, yeah, I'm a real hardnut...


ahem.

It's a species of huntsman spider, wich are pretty harmless things, and a specialist spider hunting wasp. The spider never stood a chance.

It's not dead at the end, but merely paralysed. It will be buried in a small burrow dug by the wasp and sut in with the eggs of the wasp laid on it's body. When the eggs hatch they'll have a nice fresh meal of spider to get them going. It will be eaten alive in the burrow.

The wasp doesn't kill the spider because although paralysed it's bodys defenses will still repel infection, meaning it'll stay fresher longer.

Nice.

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Hey! That's my line. ..then your s'pposed to do all the url hunting

ohwell - http://videosift.com/video/How-Not-to-Catch-a-Huntsman-Spider

>> ^Shepppard:

almost certain this is a dupe

>> ^ponceleon:

Please god, let this be fake in that I mean, that's his pet spider... I don't want to believe that a spider this big could just be out there in a regular American suburban home...


The huntsman is native to parts of america...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider

This vid is from aus, but it's a huntsman and you can get similar spiders in america.

http://videosift.com/video/How-Not-to-Catch-a-Huntsman-Spider

But you shouldn't be scared of them

http://videosift.com/video/How-the-Huntsman-spider-kills-people-without-venom

>> ^laura:
...and just what was he going to do if he HAD gotten the container over her?

stand there for the rest of his life.

>> ^Drax:
CHRIST! Did it travel back through time too??


Actually, I recall reading some small blurb about researchers entertaining the notions that spiders have the ability to see a little bit into the future as an explanation for their reflexes. Now, that's highly unlikely to be true, but it does illustrate a point: They're seriously responsive critters.

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Sorry you can't set yourself up for a "That's what she said" without giving a 5 second window of opportunity for someone else to reply (or 5 post)... It's Rule #5

>> ^Shpydir:
He should've gone at it from behind.
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

>> ^furrycloud:
Hilarious! That has definitely happened to me before, just not with such a huge and freaky spider! For us non-Aussies, can anyone translate what the girl says at the end? It sounds like, "I told you not..." And I can't figure out the rest.


"I tol' you not to play wif spider."

Yeah, I hope the spider is OK.

>> ^jimnms:
Looks like he might have chopped it in half.