Cairns man snaps incredible pics of snake-eating spider

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31. Are you sure it wasn't a Huntsman?

They kind of look similar and so far I've had four huntsmen in my house in the past week and the most massive of them was on my bedroom wall and took half a can of fly spray to kill. It was still massive when I vacuumed it up the next morning even though it had shrivelled to about a quarter of its original size...



(I'd rather have a mouse crawl all over me than hold one of those things in my hand!)

I've even had small scorpions come into the house, but what flyspray won't kill, a boot will. I just whimper a lot when I'm getting rid of them, and I try to ignore the irrational fear that a whole bunch of rogue spiders will appear and take revenge on me for the killing of their relative