Huntsman spiders, members of the familySparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They also are called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometimes are referred to as wood spiders, because of their preference for woody places (forests, mine shafts, woodpiles, wooden shacks). In southern Africa the genus Palystes are known as rain spiders or lizard-eating spiders. Commonly they are confused with baboon spiders from the Mygalomorphaeinfraorder, which are not closely related.
Sparassids are eight-eyed spiders. The eyes appear in two largely forward-facing rows of four on the anterior aspect of the prosoma. Many species grow very large – in Laos, Heteropoda maxima males attain a legspan of 250–300mm (about 10–12in). Persons unfamiliar with spider taxonomy commonly confuse large species with tarantulas, but huntsman spiders can generally be identified by their legs, which, rather than being jointed vertically relative to the body, are twisted in such a way that in some attitudes the legs extend forward in a crab-like fashion.
'It's come off, and there's nothing I could have done ... 'Yeah ... 'In Queensland my daughter just got [a] seatbelt fine for over $1000! There was a giant huntsman spider in the car and her friend tried to lean away from it and got photographed by a camera.
Obvioulsy, Jamie's girlfriend in Love Actually didn't just have a bad cold, she was cheating on him with his brother ...Photo ... I’d move to Australia, but they have huntsman spiders, and I’d move to Florida or Texas, but they have Republicans.
... breeding, eating, and sleeping underwater.Sinopoda ScurionFound in Laos in 2012, the Sinopoda scurion is quite a remarkable species of spider since it is the first ever recorded blind huntsman spider.
For Roache-Turner, he was getting a bit bored of all horror spiders being the furry kind – Huntsmans or tarantulas, mostly – and wanted to lean into something that looked more vicious.
DaniZenith, a teaching assistant at the school in Croydon, said staff screamed when the huntsman spider leapt out of the banana box ... What is a huntsman spider?. Huntsman spiders are large spiders with long legs that can measure up to 6in across.
Office staff at the school in Croydon, south London, screamed when the huge huntsman spider - a Heteropoda venatoria - jumped out of the box of bananas and onto the floor ... .
For the country synonymous with spiders, Blunt and John Krasinski had the ideal encounter with a scary huntsman spider ...The Devil Wears Prada star recalled having a quiet drink with her husband on the terrace when she spotted a huntsman spider.
The world is currently freaking out over a photograph showing a huntsman spider quietly dragging away a pygmy possum for its dinner ... "It was one of the biggest huntsman spiders he'd ever seen.
A UK traveller revealed the one thing nobody warned her about when it came to Australia - and it has nothing to do with spiders or aggressive kangaroos ... 'And the rest of the world wonders why we like our huntsman spiders,' one said.
"I saw 'Meanwhile in Australia' and was waiting for a huge HuntsmanSpider to appear or run across the floor," joked someone else ... "I thought it was gonna be a spider the size of ...
A terrified warehouse worker found a venomous huntsman spider the size of a hand in boxes shipped to the UK from China... The huntsman spider (pictured) was found in a warehouse in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Tuesday.
The stowaway creepy-crawly was found in a warehouse among boxes that had come from China. The worker who found it believes it had died during the month-long journey by boat ... .
Huntsman spiders are among the biggest in the world, and skin-crawling photos showed the stowaway spider’s crushed corpse inside of a box ... In February 2022, a huntsman spider ended up in Hull after a 5,000 mile trip.
'Thank youAustralia for the beautiful memories (minus the spiders),' she captioned her post ... She posted one photograph of the huge huntsman spider she managed to capture in her palatial $10,000-a-night five-bedroom Sydney accommodation.
