Giant chicken eating spider. Really.

[Imp]

A.T. Hagan :

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No wonder Gritty gets after you so telling whoppers like that!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3353693/Giant-spider-eating-a-bird-caught-on-camera.html

How about a finch.

you're right a finch. My memory is still saying that it was ID'd as a duck somewhere. Gosh it's heck getting old.

Here's a link to more info. Apparently they live in large colonies.

http://community.livejournal.com/urban_nature/184689.html

If you google bird eating spiders there are lots of hits.

It's funny if you google duck eating spider, my post is #1 hit

Imp- doing my part to spread misinformation worldwide. and getting better at it.​

 

[elizabethbinary]

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Elizabethbinary: really? I see you've updated to show your location as Australia: you actually have an enormous spider like that blue/grey one in your yard? Do you see it regularly, or just once?

We had a great big wolf spider last summer that spun a web on our front porch posts. I left it alone and my son and I would marvel every morning at its web and the things it had caught - it was there for a couple months maybe. But a "big" wolf spider is only about 1" across. Do you seriously have a 6" spider in your yard?!

really really. It's in my dog's kennel and I am too terrified to remove it and my husband keeps forgetting. It doesn't hurt anything - it actually helps - but I'm still scared of it. It's a baby so it's only about, y'know, PALM SIZED... but it can grow to be 9"-12" if fed proper.... it doesn't bother my chickens but my chickens also don't bother it!!! It eats a loooooot of moths and flies mostly. I see about 20-30 new ones in it's web each day.

A 1" spider is quite a small spider here. Our most common spiders are huntsmen and I think their babies are about that size.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Elizabeth.....I just fainted. OMG. i couldn't imagine anything like that.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

D'Angelo N Va. :

Elizabeth.....I just fainted. OMG. i couldn't imagine anything like that.

Ditto! That made my chest tighten up just thinking about that.​

 

[elizabethbinary]

Awww why? They're not deadly! None of the big flashy spiders are.

It's the little tiny ones that you can barely see that climb into your blankets at night that are the deadly ones.

But honestly when I told people I had this spider they told me to give it to my chickens... and my chickens ran away! D:

I had one on my front door, too... but THAT one my husband did remember to remove for me.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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My husband would have peed his pants and I would have to remove it. Dang city boys!

 

[sourland]

Elizabeth, I hope it's not a "dog eating" spider.

 

[bobbi-j]

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I'd be running away, too! BTW, how did you give it to the chickens? Did you actually get close enough to touch the thing?

 

[drumstick diva]

Exactly how did you husband go about "removing" it? I gather he re=located it. I would have been screaming for the army to destroy it. Sounds like "She Lob" from "Lord of the Rings."- maybe it was. Wasn't that filmed in New Zealand or Australia. I think I'll keep my lights on when I go to bed.

 

[lil'turkeymama]

Spiders do kinda freak me out,not alot but some.We do have some big one here in Alabama.I'm pretty sure not alot of people ever see them.They live in very remote areas and I've only see them close to water.They at least as big as my hand totally spread out,about the length of a #2 pencil.We always see them when we float the creek in our canoe.I'll have to make sure I get a picture of one.