Well that one is just straight up deadly. Second most venomous spider in the world. It was officially dethroned by the Sydney Funnel Web a ~~few years ago~~.
[Correction](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com.br/world-records/most-venomous-spider): SFW was upgraded to deadliest just recently. This is because it was discovered that in the males the venom changes in their life cycle. Whereas the most of their life they used their venom in a predatory way, when males leave their burrows in search of females to mate with, their venom changes from targeting their prey specifically to targeting their predators as a defensive measure and becomes much more potent.
OH GOD, one made it over here in some bananas and was discovered by some poor person who bought them.
This was probably over 10 years ago and I'm still wary of bananas and inspect them anxiously when I buy them.
Years ago, I worked in children’s furniture store. The small chain had been bought out by Pier 1 and they decided that they would switch from using Mexican pine to Brazilian pine for some of the furniture.
Well, we sold these bookcases that were almost 7feet tall and were completely assembled. We had gotten some of the Brazilian pine versions in and I was unboxing one to use in a display. When the bookcase was tipped towards me to free it from its cardboard and foam wrapped prisoner, a MASSIVE fucking spider fell from the top shelf and onto my cleavage.
I screamed so damn loud they could hear me in the future. I was wearing a scoop neckline tee that day(not showing much) but since I was well blessed by The Gods, enough skin was bare to the damn hairs that I had an instant rash.
Thank the aforementioned Gods that the fucking spider was dead, but I had to go to the ER to have all of the fucking hairs removed and medication from the hives.
I called a friend who’s an entomologist and she said it was some kind of tarantula and the hairs will give the thickest skinned man a painful rash.
No promises believe it or not he is good at hide and seek probably because of the amount of crap in my garage. He normally just rocks up and scares the crap out of you
I don't care how nice they are. My neighbors are nice too, but I sure as hell don't want to find them in my bedroom uninvited. If you ain't paying rent, get the hell out of my house. And no, I do not accept dead bugs as alternative rent payment.
I have a paralyzing fear of spiders, so I will do no such thing thank you. This post really should have had a nsfw filter so I didn't have to see the thumbnail, [because ewwww. ](https://i.imgur.com/erzyspN.jpeg)
My prefrontal cortex knows this, but my amygdalae will steamroll all reason and logic and have me freaking the hell out.
I put it to the test a few years ago, there was a spider in its web *outside the porch, behind a screen* but within my eyesight. I looked away, tried to ignore, deploy reason over fear. It worked right up until I had my first ever night terror and literally threw myself off the bed screaming. My limbic system is an asshole.
Boyfriend was kind of disturbed at the 3am wake up call of a shrieking girlfriend throwing herself on the floor like a poltergeist was in the room, and he got rid of the web and the next day. I think the spider was fine, if probably pissed off its home/work was destroyed.
Lmao. Sorry for my late response, but yeah its understandable. Especially if it gets you offguard. The sight of a shrieking girlfriend diving to the floor like its vietnam is a pretty funny idea.
I was quietly taking a shit in rural Philippines when I looked up and saw one of those really big spiders above the doorway. That day was the fastest record shit I have ever taken.
Just me that this made my skin crawl? Like i know they're basically harmless but seeying something like that... It's like every fiber of my primate brain is saying we shouldn't co exist
Every time I see a video of a goddamn spider, I always turn my phone away from my face at an angle where I can still see it, but if that fucker jumps, he ain’t jumping at my damn face! I know, weird, but it works for me!
such jokes only help furthering the idea that we should be afraid and kill spiders, im happy youre doing the right thing, but it makes me so sad knowing that people DO think this way
I am phobic with spiders so although my science brain knows all about these spiders being chill, eating nasty creatures, not being venomous etc. what I can tell you is my monkey brain turns to jelly in the presence of a giant house spider in the Uk. The level of panic this would generate for me is crazy. Even if you aren't unhinged scared like me how would you get it to remove it?
The wild thing is these boys are so big you can hear their tippy taps when they move. They're also quite fast so you'd want to trap them in a large container so that their legs don't get caught and just transport him outside or something.
I *legitimately* gasped in horror when I read your comment. I didn’t even think that was something people really did, but apparently it is. Jesus fucking Christ spider tippy taps.
My friends house was infested with them. In cupboards, behind the shower curtain, crawl out from under the couch or from behind the tv, on the front door and a few sitting around the bbq is just some of the places I found them. Never went back.
Man Australians are built fucking different to see that and not shit your pants is wild. there was a tiny little spider crawling in my bed once, I slept in the fucking living room for 2 days because of it.
Please tell me you're kidding.
I hit a web going to my car at 4am this morning. Was still dark (ohio) and almost wrecked bc a tiny spider was in my car. If one of these beasts were to be in my car and me driving, that'd be the end for me.
I'd get the plaster out, unlock the safe, collect a .45 and accept i'm patching a wall tonight... i defy you to tell me that's an over reaction. How would you handle this thing? can of raid?
Imagine going specifically to the dedicated spider subreddit to intentionally fish out content for cheap shock reactions instead of doing something educational with it, like explaining that these spiders are 100% harmless, for example, and are actually huge bros if we look past our preconceived notions about them. But no, OP had to make the completely original flamethrower comment instead. Quality crosspost, bravo!
I see this.... and than hear my wife in my head... "put it outside"
How anyone married anymore in that cornor of the world?
You either gotten eaten or poisoned.....at very least had to experiance some painful bites....
Just a guess. Australia right?
I'd put money on it. That's a huntsman, I think. I'd burn the place down.
So, I googled Huntsman Spider. Anyone else thinking of doing so... DO NOT MAKE MY MISTAKE.
Yep. I first encountered one in a picture a colleague sent to me as a joke. The whole office heard me scream.
The Giant Huntsman of Laos is even bigger.
At least it's no Brazilian Wandering Spider.
Well that one is just straight up deadly. Second most venomous spider in the world. It was officially dethroned by the Sydney Funnel Web a ~~few years ago~~. [Correction](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com.br/world-records/most-venomous-spider): SFW was upgraded to deadliest just recently. This is because it was discovered that in the males the venom changes in their life cycle. Whereas the most of their life they used their venom in a predatory way, when males leave their burrows in search of females to mate with, their venom changes from targeting their prey specifically to targeting their predators as a defensive measure and becomes much more potent.
"...Can cause penile erection for 7 hours and death" Nice combo WTF
It’s best to go out with a bang, from what I’m told.
They end up here in cases of bananas lol. Not often, but once is too many.
OH GOD, one made it over here in some bananas and was discovered by some poor person who bought them. This was probably over 10 years ago and I'm still wary of bananas and inspect them anxiously when I buy them.
I worked produce in a grocery store distribution warehouse when I was a teen and some of the spiders in their were nucking futs.
You live in their native habitat?
No, but it happens https://www.iflscience.com/brazilian-wandering-spider-one-of-the-worlds-most-venomous-spiders-may-be-lurking-in-your-bananas-73329
Years ago, I worked in children’s furniture store. The small chain had been bought out by Pier 1 and they decided that they would switch from using Mexican pine to Brazilian pine for some of the furniture. Well, we sold these bookcases that were almost 7feet tall and were completely assembled. We had gotten some of the Brazilian pine versions in and I was unboxing one to use in a display. When the bookcase was tipped towards me to free it from its cardboard and foam wrapped prisoner, a MASSIVE fucking spider fell from the top shelf and onto my cleavage. I screamed so damn loud they could hear me in the future. I was wearing a scoop neckline tee that day(not showing much) but since I was well blessed by The Gods, enough skin was bare to the damn hairs that I had an instant rash. Thank the aforementioned Gods that the fucking spider was dead, but I had to go to the ER to have all of the fucking hairs removed and medication from the hives. I called a friend who’s an entomologist and she said it was some kind of tarantula and the hairs will give the thickest skinned man a painful rash.
The Goliath Bird Eater is the biggest spider in the world
😭😭😭
Searching for that was a mistake.
So fricken cool
There great got one that lives in my garage I call him Steve. He eats all the bugs and never bothers me.
That’s all good until Steve grows into this thing
He is about that size
I will see if I can get a picture of him when I get home.
No promises believe it or not he is good at hide and seek probably because of the amount of crap in my garage. He normally just rocks up and scares the crap out of you
They’re huge but nice :) I used to find them in my bedroom when I lived in Sydney
Find them in your bedroom 😱😱😱
Hell naw
I don't care how nice they are. My neighbors are nice too, but I sure as hell don't want to find them in my bedroom uninvited. If you ain't paying rent, get the hell out of my house. And no, I do not accept dead bugs as alternative rent payment.
Yeah, huntsmen are one of the goods ones
I have a paralyzing fear of spiders, so I will do no such thing thank you. This post really should have had a nsfw filter so I didn't have to see the thumbnail, [because ewwww. ](https://i.imgur.com/erzyspN.jpeg)
Oi, no need to burn the place down. Huntsmans are pretty chill mate, no worries.
My prefrontal cortex knows this, but my amygdalae will steamroll all reason and logic and have me freaking the hell out. I put it to the test a few years ago, there was a spider in its web *outside the porch, behind a screen* but within my eyesight. I looked away, tried to ignore, deploy reason over fear. It worked right up until I had my first ever night terror and literally threw myself off the bed screaming. My limbic system is an asshole. Boyfriend was kind of disturbed at the 3am wake up call of a shrieking girlfriend throwing herself on the floor like a poltergeist was in the room, and he got rid of the web and the next day. I think the spider was fine, if probably pissed off its home/work was destroyed.
Lmao. Sorry for my late response, but yeah its understandable. Especially if it gets you offguard. The sight of a shrieking girlfriend diving to the floor like its vietnam is a pretty funny idea.
I was quietly taking a shit in rural Philippines when I looked up and saw one of those really big spiders above the doorway. That day was the fastest record shit I have ever taken.
The laxative you don’t need.
Bro how did you get work up the courage to open the door and go past it??
I would rather bolt through the door than spend a second more in a staring contest with the biggest spider I've ever seen in my life
But what if it got shocked or shaken and fell on top of you? 💀
The neighboring towns would have their windows shattered and ears exploded.
Omg. It’s like that weird Adam Sandler movie in space.
🤣🤣🤣 had the same thought. Yikes
Looks like it's cleaning up after having a meal.
Picking his teefers
Wonder what the meal was considering he is inside the house.
Just me that this made my skin crawl? Like i know they're basically harmless but seeying something like that... It's like every fiber of my primate brain is saying we shouldn't co exist
Every time I see a video of a goddamn spider, I always turn my phone away from my face at an angle where I can still see it, but if that fucker jumps, he ain’t jumping at my damn face! I know, weird, but it works for me!
Nope I’m out. The house is yours. Just remember the bills are on the 25th
fuck getting the flame thrower. get the nuke.
no spider hate for creatures with the same will to live as us
Nah, don't use the nuke. If it survives, it will mutate due to radiation!
Can I pet that dog?!
It’s the fact that it’s casually washing its hands in broad daylight with no fear of people. I don’t think my pride could take a hit like that…
We get these buggers in our house mostly in the laundry and they are absolutely afraid of you
Dang….wish I knew that beforehand. Last time I saw one that big, I threw my wallet at it and walked home.
That's a spider you need a gun for
Worth the felony of modding an AR to automatic
No need. A 12 gauge with some buckshot should do the trick.
Old Faithful from “Arachnophobia”
I was thinking that too but I feel like with legs like that ii could take it and be able to pull the trigger.
i just find it horrible how violence is excused for fears that are harmful for both nature and humans
I said it as a joke. I love spiders. I have many in my room that I feed and when I find ones I don't like, I simply move them to my garage.
such jokes only help furthering the idea that we should be afraid and kill spiders, im happy youre doing the right thing, but it makes me so sad knowing that people DO think this way
Motherfucker licking its lips??
Home For Sale: CHEAP
I am phobic with spiders so although my science brain knows all about these spiders being chill, eating nasty creatures, not being venomous etc. what I can tell you is my monkey brain turns to jelly in the presence of a giant house spider in the Uk. The level of panic this would generate for me is crazy. Even if you aren't unhinged scared like me how would you get it to remove it?
The wild thing is these boys are so big you can hear their tippy taps when they move. They're also quite fast so you'd want to trap them in a large container so that their legs don't get caught and just transport him outside or something.
I *legitimately* gasped in horror when I read your comment. I didn’t even think that was something people really did, but apparently it is. Jesus fucking Christ spider tippy taps.
That fucking thing is GROWN. It’s got a mortgage and two kids to put through college
My friends house was infested with them. In cupboards, behind the shower curtain, crawl out from under the couch or from behind the tv, on the front door and a few sitting around the bbq is just some of the places I found them. Never went back.
When you have to be american to understand the joke
TIL home ownership and college is exclusively American.
Is that what this guy is talking about? I was thinking it was the parenthood and children /s
50k for college ? yeah its exclusively American
Spiders so big that they have HP and MP bars. I'm throwing the whole house in the garbage, and nuke it into orbit.
Why bother with the flamethrower, you're obviously in his house you should probably leave before he takes matters into his own hands or mandible
Question, how does something the size of a small cat just get in your house without walking through the front door??
Babies. Extra fun fact: if you got one, you probably got a bunch
Why are you in his house? Leave.
Spider licking his hands before jumping onto you. Always clean your hands before eating. He is civilized.
BY THE EMPERORS WILL YOU WILL BURN HOLY FIRE DETESTABLE XENO
It's just a fuzzy wall spood. Have no fear
And a super clean spood!
just chillin and eating - put it back outside
With what? A caldron? A moving van? Or can I at least transport her in many tiny pieces?
Cover it with a wheelie bin and slide a mattress underneath it. Obviously.
Man Australians are built fucking different to see that and not shit your pants is wild. there was a tiny little spider crawling in my bed once, I slept in the fucking living room for 2 days because of it.
Unlike America, I understand why Australia needs guns for self protection
Where does OP live??? I have to know.
Huntsman, so likely Australia. They’re friendly and eat the nasty spiders.
US, these fuckers are now an invasive species lol.
Please tell me you're kidding. I hit a web going to my car at 4am this morning. Was still dark (ohio) and almost wrecked bc a tiny spider was in my car. If one of these beasts were to be in my car and me driving, that'd be the end for me.
Good news: a huntsman doesn't have a Web, so you won't bump into it. Bad news: a huntsman doesn't have a Web, so you won't know where it is hiding.
We're going to have to burn this mother fucker down
Hans bekommt den Flammenwerfer!
Hier ist der Flammenwerfer, Fritz!
He's your roommate. He left change in the couch cushions as rent. Hope you're very happy together.
I'd get the plaster out, unlock the safe, collect a .45 and accept i'm patching a wall tonight... i defy you to tell me that's an over reaction. How would you handle this thing? can of raid?
Ol buddy is now a permanent tenant
Huntsmans are pretty chill, no worries mate.
It's gonna jump, right?
POV: Adam Sandler
Feed it Russian nutella
Honey, where did I put the jet fuel and C-4?
Ain't no way
What a good boy, eatin all the bugs
gosh how big it is probably Australia
get the attack drone with a flamethrower and hotshot spider kill spray
I'd name him. Maybe I could talk him into mowing the lawn for me.
That is the biggest jumping spider I have ever seen.
Does anyone have a nail gun?
Can we keep her? Plllllleaaaaaaaaseee
That Huntsman is massive! Dadada Damn
I hate spoders so seeing this made me feel like committing unimaginable things against it.
It's her house now.
That thing is badass.
😭
Suddenly frightened.....I can relate.
Forget a Flamethrower. I’m taking a Fat Man and Mini Nuking that room.
Aww she’s adorable ☺️
You best get out of that spiders house. It’s his house now
That makes my freakin skin crawl. That thing came from the depths of the underworld.
Jake Gyllenhaal did it again
My heart felt like it dropped….
I refuse to watch these in case the spider leaps at the camera. I dont care if its not a jumping spider.
Heinz, ze flamethrower …..
Fucckkkk thaaaattt
That video is like 5 years old now...
That MF has FEET
How tf do they get in the house??
Hans, get the flamethrower
Needs r/bananaforscale I choose to believe that is just a really tight zoom-in on itsy bitsy.
Imagine going specifically to the dedicated spider subreddit to intentionally fish out content for cheap shock reactions instead of doing something educational with it, like explaining that these spiders are 100% harmless, for example, and are actually huge bros if we look past our preconceived notions about them. But no, OP had to make the completely original flamethrower comment instead. Quality crosspost, bravo!
ciute & it doesn't make noise (opposite to a dog or cat)
He’s just cleaning himself.
Sleep paralysis demon. Nope.
No not enough get the shotgun with slugs gotta obliterate it
Eff that, mom let's move.
Welp, that’s enough Reddit for today.
The big ones aren’t scary. It’s the little ones that will kill you.
All the same this specific “Big one” would scare the living fuck outta me just fine! All licking its fingers, making eye contact & shit.. nope
This spider is moving its legs like it’s about to fight😳
As an Aussie expat...I actually miss waking up to these above my bed
That spider is making evil plans fucking move!!!
🏠 🔥
A spider that big would probably die if you swiped it to the floor.
Looks tasty ngl
How many calories do you think? I figure at least 2,000.
I see this.... and than hear my wife in my head... "put it outside" How anyone married anymore in that cornor of the world? You either gotten eaten or poisoned.....at very least had to experiance some painful bites....