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Huntsman Spotted in the bathroom.
Lucky my girlfriend was away in Japan at the time. She was not impressed by these photos.
When we arrived home from our weekend away we had a visitor. This spider must have enjoyed having the house to itself. It was about 8cm in diameter and completely harmless. I caught it and released it into the garden.
Huntsman Spotted in the bathroom.
Lucky my girlfriend was away in Japan at the time. She was not impressed by these photos.
While resembling both the brown recluse and the southern house spider, the huntsman spider is not even in the Sicariidae family. As a member of the Sparassidae family, Huntsman spiders are non-poisonous and non-aggressive but can cause some inflammation and irritation when they do bite. This seems to be the case for my husband.
Huntsman spiders is a family of spiders also known as the giant crab spiders, due to their appearance. Larger specimens of these spiders are also sometimes referred to as wood spiders, due to their preference for inhabiting woody places.
They do bite if provoked, but the victim will suffer only minor swelling and localized pain, and will recover in a day or two. Some larger types resemble tarantulas.
Huntsman spiders can generally be identified by their legs, which, rather than being jointed vertically relative to the body, are twisted such that the legs extend forward in a crab-like fashion.
Extracted from Wikipedia.
Cute up close : ).
Must have had a tiny drop of liquid on its head and the flash caught it.
It is a funny colour because of the shade cloth on the side of the house.
Have a special day
We found this beauty in my kitchen sink. I'm reasonably certain that what we have here is a huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria), and I'm thinking that it's a male due to the body size in proportion to the legs. With his leg span, she was probably about 10 cm. I removed him from the apartment without killing him.
I have had the misfortune of having one of these fall down onto my neck whilst travelling in the car. Thank goodness I was not driving. The car was stopped very abruptly and I managed to brush it off, and out onto the ground, I lived to tell the tale.
As I went to empty my compost recently, I lifted the lid a little higher than usual and found this guy. Spiders really bother me, however they still intrigue me. The focus isn't perfect as I used my telephoto lens so I could stand as far away as possible!
Kingdom=Animalia
Phylum=Arthropoda
Class=Arachnida
Order=Araneae
Section=Entelegynae
Superfamily=Sparassoidea
Family=Sparassidae
Genus=Pediana ?
Species=regina?
Binomial name=Pediana regina (L.Koch 1875)?
Common name=Bark Huntsman?
He is currently hanging out on the laundry wall. They grow up to 15cm across, this particular specimen is about 10cm. Those huge fangs are used for killing and eating cockroaches and while they aren't aggressive or poisonous if you annoy one you'll discover that the fangs can hurt rather a lot.
This is the Huntsman building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I also uploaded a black and white version of this photo.
Update: This photo was published in 2008 by Schmaps, as part of their Philadelphia travel guide. =D
One of the largest spiders found in Australia with a legspan up to 160 mm! The family contains 13 general and 94 descibed species.
They have a flattened body, which allow them to find shelter between loosened bark. They have eight eyes set in two rows of four. All huntsman are nocturnal. At the start of the evening the spiders leave their hiding places and wander around searching for prey. When found, they kill the victim with a bite from its strong, curved fangs.
Because a spider has to change their skin, the skin of these giants can be found hanging on trees or wires. Huntsman are widely spread in large numbers throughout the Australia and may find shelter at your home.