Giant arachnids!

[BreweryYardRat]

Because it's just not a Saturday morning without one :wow: moment. ;) :evilgrin:

Brazilian Goliath Tarantula


Aussie Huntsman Spider


Amblypygid (tailless whipscorpion)

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. YIKES!

:wow:

We humans are really not the most evolved in some respects. Spiders are complicated and efficient predators and survivors.

The creatures you posted have the power to scare the bejeezus outta me! :scared:

[thefool_wa]

5. Oh yeah, I HATE spiders

twice as many appendages as we have, they can lift hundreds of times their body wheight, faster (proportianate to size) than any other creature on earth...

And, just to make things fun, there is a special part of our brain that is designed specifically to be afraid of them.

[flvegan]

2. Aussie Hunts-Man Spider?

Thanks for the nightmares.

[BreweryYardRat]

3. Heh. If you've ever seen the famous "clockspider" pic, that was a huntsman

They're actually beneficial. They apparently eat roaches and smaller, more venomous spiders.

Although I've heard they do have a nasty tendency to hide in car sun visors...

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Clock Spider...you made me look it up!

Damn!!! It's HUGH!!!1!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Clock+Spider

[thefool_wa]

6. I've heard that too

There is a story out of Australia of a woman who wrecked her car and died because one had taken up residence under the dashboard of her car then decided to come out while she was on the highway.

Those things are MASSIVE! If one started creeping out from under my dash while I was driving I would die of a heart attack or in a fiery crash screaming like a little girl.

The irony in the story is that they are non-agressive and non-poisonous. She could have just parked and got out with no injury of any kind.

[BreweryYardRat]

7. Kick for the evening crowd.

:kick:

[Jamastiene]

8. Oh great, mow my skin is crawling and I keep slapping myself.

Considering you let the spiders out of the bag, though, I might as well be a team player and share some pictures of the types of spiders I had to do battle with in order to live where I live now. Btw, they still get inside from time to time.

The 1950's Movie Monster Spider
aka The Carolina Wolf Spider


Here is some information about them.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/species/3693.html

They are ferocious. There is no web to warn you. You just hear strange footsteps in the house in the middle of the night. You grab the baseball bat thinking there is a human sized intruder only to find it's a wolf spider. They will chase you. Ca-reepy.

And to think, some people keep them as pets. I imagine they have a grooming bill considering how hairy those monsters are.
http://www.petbugs.com/caresheets/H-carolinensis.html