Huntsman Spider on My Front Door

A huntsman spider on my front door. Not that big by Australian standards, but this one chose optimum positions to land on me if I try to open the door. Huntsman spiders like to jump and they do bite. It is a painful bite. It's just that not poisonous compared to other smaller spiders in Australia.

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• Huntsman
• huntsman
• spider
• big
• crawly
• scary
• Australian
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[Ercolano78]

I like spiders. I would love to see some big spiders like tarantula.

[saintfletcher]

@Ercolano78 We have their relatives in Far North Queensland, the bird eating spider. They have huge webs to trap birds, and they eat them. They are related to the tarantula.

[leokimvideo]

there has been load of these this summer ( opps I mean winter ) weird as last summer I did not see one, so far this summer I have had 4 of these beasts in the house

[saintfletcher]

@leokimvideo I don't know how many more I can take haha.

[Tobie2]

Oh man, time to move LOL

[saintfletcher]

@Tobie2 Um, yeah, they are everywhere around Australia, so we can't escape them. There are fewer where I live than other places as I'm in the city.

[leesbrookaccount]

I guess you left via the window! Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew l

[baole58]

That is really creepy =/

[1sunbear]

I've got heaps in my house and they're like my pets! Huntsmans only bite when cornered but unfortunately they do silly things get into handbags...that's how people get bitten-not because they have a vendetta against us.

[leokimvideo]

@saintfletcher i believe it's mating season now, watch out saint, she's after you

[leokimvideo]

@saintfletcher do a little bit more reading about the females, they can do nasty bites and can be aggressive, especially when protecting their 200 young

[leokimvideo]

@saintfletcher keep em coming, spiders are cool