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.
Dinner plate sized spider australia.
They often venture into australian homes in a bid to find prey to eat.
Australian woman laree clarke discovered the large arachnid lurking on her.
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.
Betty s posted it online and described the encounter.
The large and hairy huntsman spiders are despite their appearance not considered dangerous.
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.
A gigantic huntsman spider the size of a dinner saucepan or plate was spotted in an australian woman s living room.
And people s fears were reignited after a monster spider the size of a dinner plate went on the.
The plate sized spiders hunt for their.
Photos of a giant huntsman spider have gone viral on facebook with a combined 18 000 comments among the two pictures of the queensland australia spider that was taken two years ago.
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.
It is often described as being the size of a dinner plate.
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.
In australia a huntsman spider was seen.