Giant Spider Has Been Australian Family's Guest For 1 Year

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• talos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s just a huntsman spider. Extremely common and totally harmless to humans. They can run really fast though, and the way they move can look a bit freaky.

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  • freeman@lemmy.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still. That is the largest huntsman I have ever seen. And I grew up with plenty spider bros in my house

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• zik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This isn’t particularly unusual. Huntsmans are pretty friendly and quite a lot of people happily co-habit with them. I’ve known a couple of people who had friendly huntsmans in their cars for instance. I didn’t like the time one of them dropped in my lap though.

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  • Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude I would not be alive to make a Lemmy comment if one of those things dropped into my lap mid-drive…but that’s just me and my phobias lol.

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  • Ashiette@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No shit !

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• iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  can you boil these and suck the meat out those crab legs?

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  • dlpkl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like fellating a kiwi

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• Firipu@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck that…

  I have a little jumping spider (about 1cm or so) in my house that I just leave around to do its thing, but that’s the limit of my spider tolerance. Anything more than that, and I wouldn’t be able to sleep anymore…

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck that shit

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• daddyjones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the strange thing about Australia. If I ever went there I wouldn’t be at all concerned about meeting a black widow or those ones with the red stripe on their backs. In fact, if be interested. Respectful and careful, but interested.

  If I meet one of these, however, if run screaming. And if I encountered that nest is have to burn the house down!

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  • nyoooom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And yet the black widow is pretty dangerous and this is harmless… I guess the size is enough, no need for any venom

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    • daddyjones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh yeah - rationally I know I’ve got it backwards. It’s definitely the size.

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• PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Add me to you list of people ok with mocking leaders with non-racist comparisons to cartoon characters

  I’m assuming the video just loops as the spider comes into view because it dispatched of the entire family seconds later

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