is this spider real????

Longbord1

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its a very real spider prob from australia i was watching croc huntter and he was holding some they seem quite common i just can't seem to find them in fla stinks for me:( :(
mike
 

FelixA9

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Originally posted by Atrax
I doubt it's photoshopped. The spider is a Heteropoda, probably venatoria. I have kept adult specimens of these and have a juvie now. They get pretty damn big, average 5" legspans.
Another thing about them, they are frikkin F-A-S-T! FF-AA-SS-TT!!
Makes 'em a ton of laughs when transferring them, feeding them, changing water, breathing etc.. They have a really bad habit of teleporting out of any opening in the enclosure you may attempt to access for maintenance.
It would be very interesting to live where they are free roaming. I'd probably sleep a lot less. LOL


Atrax
Those friggin' things are EVERYWHERE in East Texas. I saw one that was easily as big as the one in the picture. It was in a swimming pool floating on the water no less. Alive. Another incident was told to me be a friend. His five year old daughter was having a slumber party and she came into him and his wife's bedroom late at night and said "there's a spider on so and so". He thought it was just an ity bitty spider. Well he went in there and the rest of the little girls were asleep including the one with one of these beasties DRAPED across her face getting warm. Green apples was the first thing that came to mind and then after that he had to figure out how to get rid of the spider without waking anybody up. Well I can only imagine the comedy that ensued because he said as soon as the spider saw him moving towards him it was off like a shot running all over these sleeping girls' sleeping bags. He got it away form the kids but he never could catch or kill it LOL!
 

FelixA9

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Oh yeah, and down there they just call them "Grass Spiders" obviously not the scientific name :)
 

heyjeyniceid

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yeah, we have those in Arizona. Biggest one I ever saw probably measured 3-4 in. across. Freakiest things when you turn around on your porch and one is staring right at you.
 

FelixA9

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Here's a closeup of one of these babies (or one very close to it). Talk about uuuugly.
 

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Longbord1

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where did u prder that iif i ever got to austaralia im taking some on the flight with me i swear. i took a nephila over from flarida by plain why can't i do this it might be because dif country but well see.
mike
 
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