Ho Onewasjo, the spider you show is most likely a subadult male Heteropoda venatoria. They are abundantly in the Philippines and harmless !
(Although this does not mean that all Heteropodid species are harmless)
My wife is from the Philippines and 2 years ago (in central Luzon) my dad in-law took me out for a night excursion and in about 1 hour time we captured over 20 adult specimen with bare hand all directly in the environment of the house...
They are extremely fast running but none of the captured specimen did any atempt to bite.
The size of adults vary a lot but big female specimen will reach over 3cm bodylenght.
They are usually a wecome guest inside the houses since they eat a lot of 2 inch big cockroaches.
(Although this does not mean that all Heteropodid species are harmless)
My wife is from the Philippines and 2 years ago (in central Luzon) my dad in-law took me out for a night excursion and in about 1 hour time we captured over 20 adult specimen with bare hand all directly in the environment of the house...
They are extremely fast running but none of the captured specimen did any atempt to bite.
The size of adults vary a lot but big female specimen will reach over 3cm bodylenght.
They are usually a wecome guest inside the houses since they eat a lot of 2 inch big cockroaches.
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