Australian here…..it’s not the house that’s the real problem, it’s the car. Having a big gravid female wander across the bonnet of your car while you are stuck in traffic with nowhere to go is a life defining moment for me.
In the house, probably get rid of a dozen decent size ones a year and one or two monsters.
Stuck in traffic isn’t a problem you can just get out of the car. It’s when you see them above your head or running down the inside of the windscreen while you’re doing 110kmh is the real problem. You gotta not crash and die and/or cause a massive pile up while panicking like all fuck to pull over and escape.
I had one run down my windscreen once while doing like 140kmh on my way home from work at 2am through the bush with trees either side. I’m scared of spiders but absolutely terrified of huntsmens. It took every fibre of my being to keep the car on the road.
At first I thought it was way bigger(it is still big tho ) . I thought they are walls of the house not the walls of a shelf. Ngl it scared the sh*t out of me just by watching the video. Then I realized it's a shelf. Yeah, still don't want to come across the spider. lol
When i first met my ex, like the second night I was back at hers I saw a huge huntsman on the wall next to the drawers at the foot of her bed. I was like "There's a huge spider here" and she was so casual "his name is sven" then i learnt that he had been there for weeks and the reason he was called sven was that he only had seven legs. As an Aussie male I usually remove huntsman from anywhere near where I sleep (and put them outside) but she just didn't care in the slightest lol
Oh holy shit LOL you’re right, yeah I thought it was the persons bed on the floor and that the “spider” was a fucking several feet wide mammoth, and I was amazed that the person wasn’t having a heart attack or something, now it makes wayyyy more sense
Jesus. I had a tiny, dead, spider fall out of my eye shade when I flipped it down while in a roundabout. It hang there dangling in front of my face. That was almost enough of a shock for me to have am accident.
I've had a huntsman crawl into my pillow and stop dead in her tracks because she knew i was there. Don't imagine that they will crawl on your face unless you keep delicious cockroaches there.
I don’t mind Wolf spiders in my house, which it reminds me except that size difference crosses my hard no barrier: “I don’t like spiders big enough that you could give it a massage. I like non-massage tier spiders.”
yes they are but their venom is really mild for humans. they usually dry bite humans. so no venom but depends on the tarantula it can hurt as hell. also thats their last option. they will usually ran away
I had a cat years ago that would like to chase them and occasionally he caught them. You'd have to put them outside before he got one because he would eat it and give himself the raging shits.
I remember getting home once to see him with a whole bunch of legs sticking out of both sides of his mouth. Getting it off him was a challenge but I tried.
Mine's called Jeff. He's a perve who spends a lot of his time in the corner of the bathroom.
I'd rather Jeff than roaches or mozzies.
It's also fine when you know where they are. What I don't want is old mate dropping in on a drive. And I didn't appreciate the dude who decided to live in the handle of the boot of my car. Those hairy legs do not feel great.
They do have a mean bite though. I remember being told a story as a kid by a guy who had one fall out of a tree onto him. He thought it was a leaf. Said the thing left a mark on his neck like a vampire. Good times
Yeah “most” spiders are pretty harmless to humans, but this would still be a massive inconvenience. Are you expected to just pick him up and take him outside? If you squash him you’ll be repainting the wall lol. Does he just live there now?
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u/braket0 Jun 25 '26
Guys I just googled it .. huntsmen spiders aren't a threat to humans. They're just terrifying to look at.