Hundreds of 'highly cannibalistic' spiders invade teen's bedroom in Australia
By Mindy Weisberger - Senior Writer 19 hours ago
Extreme heat can send spiders scurrying for indoor shelter.
The pitter-patter of little feet in a child's bedroom is a joyous sound — except perhaps when those feet belong to hundreds of baby huntsman spiders.
"Gaaaahhhhhhhh, a friend of mine in Sydney just walked into her daughter's room and found this," Hobart, Australia resident Peta Rogers tweeted on Jan. 27. Rogers' Sydney friend, who asked not to be identified on social media, had sent Rogers photos and a video of her daughter's bedroom, after the teen told her "Mom, we've got a bunch of spiders up there," the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) reported on Jan. 30.
When Rogers' friend went to investigate, she found quite a few spiders in the corner of the room. "That's not too bad, there's maybe 50 or 60," she says in the video. And then she turned the camera toward another corner, revealing at least twice as many spiderlings crouching on the walls and ceiling.
"They're so cute!" she exclaims.
As the Sydney woman filmed her leggy houseguests, she speculated that they were baby huntsman spiders, which are in the spider family Sparassidae and are widespread in Australia and in other places with warm climates. One huntsman species, the giant huntsman spider (Heteropoda maxima) from Laos, has a leg span of up to 12 inches (30 centimeters), and is the biggest spider in the world by diameter. But the average huntsman has a leg span of no more than 5 inches (12.7 cm), and a body length of just 1 inch (2.5 cm) long.
More:
https://www.livescience.com/huntsman-spiders-babies-bedroom.html
Huntsman spider
Man feels something tickling his ear. Discovers a huntsman spider inside his earmuffs.
Article:
https://sea.mashable.com/science/12862/man-felt-something-tickling-his-ear-removes-earmuffs-to-find-a-huntsman-spider-inside
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Am advocating saving them. They're peaceful critters.
