What spider is that?

[WannaBeHillBilly]

She is giant, I hope she makes it through these chilly nights.

Sadly, no! - What i read at WP is that they create their egg sack just before the first frost and then die.

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

I won't. Japan is the only thing that is certainly on my list.
Unfortunately, they have massive hornets over there.

Giant hornets...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

My chooks eat big ol garden spiders

My ducks would too, but not even Blanca Duck has such a long neck!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Its pretty gross to watch chickens eat creepy bugs.

You have never seen a duck eating a mouse - alive!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

(Bleh!) How could you?!
They carried them around in their beaks.
My grandpa used to take two spiders on a stick and have spider fights, when he was a kid!

I did the same too! Love your grandpa!!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

PHEW!
Are you sure...

Where do you live? - According to WP they live almost everywhere, except Australia and Antarctica. And in Down-Under that spider would be your least concern...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

We have SO many giant wolf spiders around here, just creepy!

We had plenty of them, but the ducks can run faster…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Are those it’s actual eyes?!?!?!? It’s staring straight into my soul. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Yes, these are eyes and they use them to hypnotize you, so you cannot move away and then they…
JUMP AT YOU!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Anybody else going to have spider nightmares tonight?!

Nope, but i ran out of peanut-butter! That's a nightmare!!!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

These are what we get, im slightly shaking...
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Those are very common in Germany, they are called »Cross Spiders« - literally translated from German.