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03-13-2018, 08:03 AM

Chasing Hawk

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Scary Alert!! Arachnophobia ahead

Are they really this big "Down Under"?

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/13/massive-6-inch-hairy-spider-saved-from-mind-blowing-australian-flood.html

Last edited by QuiltnNan; 03-13-2018 at 01:05 PM. Reason: correct link

03-13-2018, 11:09 AM

charley26

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Fox News does actual science shows?

03-13-2018, 09:35 PM

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I will be in style with "American Grown" padded hips but those outfits are another story. LOL

03-13-2018, 09:51 PM

JustAbitCrazy

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When I click your link I get some very scary fashions but no spiders.

03-14-2018, 02:37 AM

Battle Axe

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Those fashions could gag a maggot!

03-14-2018, 04:22 AM

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Chasing Hawk--The link is wrong but I can tell you from personal experience, that the Huntsman spider can be as big as a soup bowl. They usually travel in pairs and are completely harmless, sitting still on a floor or wall, until they see a bug, then boy can they move!! I guess I should amend the 'completely harmless' because the couple of times I came in contact with one I sure jumped!!

03-14-2018, 04:23 AM

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Yes, they get that big LOL ... and nothing that can scare the heck out of you is completely harmless hahahahaha ...

03-14-2018, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by charley26

Fox News does actual science shows?

Fox News has many science and history documentary series. And they are good, must be as my grands like watching them and they are documentary snobs. LOL

03-14-2018, 07:08 AM

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There are big spiders here in the US too. I lived in the Southwest for awhile, they have tarantulas there. Did you know that tarantula spiders migrate? They do. Every year during migration they would cross a road I regularly drove on. I would see one from quite aways away, and usually was able to swerve to miss it. The first year this happened I remember thinking, " I can't believe the spiders are big enough to see them crossing the road", and then thinking, "I can't believe I live where the spiders are big enough to see them crossing the road!"

03-14-2018, 07:48 AM

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And traffic stops to let them pass. At least that is what happened when I lived in southwest many, many years ago. I have a friend in Australia that has a big huntsman spider in her garage from time to time. All she does is take a broom and sweep it outside. Blech!