Dinner Plate Sized Spider Australia

They often venture into australian homes in a bid to find prey to eat.

Dinner plate sized spider australia. She was dinner plate sized but only tea set dinner plate not real ones i called her grizelda i just ignored her and after a few days she went back behind the drier and i never saw her again. The world s largest spider is the size of a dinner plate most spiders are only a few centimetres long but a few species have grown far far bigger share on facebook. A viral photo taken by betty herself testifies to this after she rescued a huntsman spider the size of a dinner plate. The large and hairy huntsman spiders are despite their appearance not considered dangerous.

Huntsman spiders which live all around the world are known for their enormous size and can grow to a leg span size of 10 to 12 inches. In australia a huntsman spider was seen. Australian woman laree clarke discovered the large arachnid lurking on her. The plate sized spiders hunt for their.

In the video above doctoral candidate mike grundler describes the tarantula as about the size of a dinner plate and says that seeing the spider eating a mammal was very unexpected the footage of a spider carrying the opossum off begins at about the 11 second mark. It is often described as being the size of a dinner plate. While the average huntsman spider is only about 1 inch long with a 5 inch leg span the largest one ever recorded had a leg span of around 12 inches roughly the size of a dinner plate. And people s fears were reignited after a monster spider the size of a dinner plate went on the.

The biggest spider i saw in australia it came from behind the drier in our laundry and gave me a huge fright was a female huntsman. The giant huntsman spider however has a leg span of up to 12 inches 30 cm making it the largest spider by diameter.