Comments on: Big Scary Australian Spiders. ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

By: shannon

shannon — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:47:20 +0000

wow that is huge, i live in South Australia but havent seen a spider that big. the biggest spider i have seen is a redback and that scared the living daylights out of me

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:03:30 +0000

Fun times Kirsty!

I live in Sydneys West, New South Wales in Australia and i have nicknamed this Huntsman i have in my car (It’s been there for approximately 4 months) It’s a ‘Flatback spider’. One day i opened my sun visor mirror cover to find a flat, dead huntsman fall on my lap on one of Sydney’s M4 motorway at 110 Km/ph (I don’t think i have ever braked so hard on the breakdown lane). The spider had gotten inside my sun visor mirror cover and i must have slammed up the sun visor one day and now he’s inprinted in my mirror.

Be glad it wasn’t something more vicious!

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:14:43 +0000

I just came home and we did have big thunderstorms today, I live in NSW Australia..and found two huge hunstman spiders in my kitchen as big as my hand!!! I freaked out! I’m Aussie born and bred but god I hate spiders..I am also nota fan of killing an animal but all i could do was spray and spray, I couldnt even pick them up when they finally stopped moving..currently on the floor they are..Im waiting for my friend to come round tomorrow to get them..I’ll just tiptoe around them for now…

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:00:52 +0000

I was just doing some searching on the web to find out about poisonous spiders in Ontario, I’m deathly afraid of spiders and have anxiety attacks when I see even the smallest spiders, my skin is crawling right now from all the images I’ve seen and I can’t stop looking around me at the walls, ceiling and floors. I have a friend in Austrailia and I definitely will no be visiting after reading this. I would not come home alive.

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By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:34:55 +0000

I would have had the same reaction as you!
Spiders scare the living poo out of me, but Australia is such a fascinating place. :]

By: Pseud

Pseud — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:49:40 +0000

The Huntsmans are an incredible spider. They’re one of Australia’s “Old World” spiders ( fangs pointing down instead of inward pincers). Some things I’ve learned about them is that they choose to never jump although they can fall very gracefully using their legs as a parachute. They’re incredibly fast and have very little use, if any, for their spinners. Cars seem to be the worst place you can find them though because most times they’re very timid and, nearly all times, will only be running towards you out of accidental directions. Knowing all this doesn’t help at all though. If one is coming, my skin and skeleton will be trying to leap away in different directions while my brain works out which ear it will most like to escape through.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:20:32 +0000

Now that is just one gross story. It is one of my biggest fears,a spider in the car whilst driving at speed.

My wife and I found a large rain spider inside the door of our new car a few years back (we live in South Africa). If it had not been for a neigbour. That car would probably sill be standing outside our front gate…useless!

By: Axel

Axel — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:37:38 +0000

Loved WA. Unfortunaly we just spotted one redback and we only had to “dispose” one wolfspider out of our room. Next time when my girl and i will travel a 15.000 km trip down under i hope to see some more of the beautyfull nature (and spiders off course) of Oz .

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sat, 12 May 2007 06:35:43 +0000

What? Oh no! We’re headed towards Western Australia in the next few weeks. Argghhhh!!