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Huntsman Spider – The World’s Largest Spider

This is one household that definitely does not like spiders. I’m okay with them as long as they are outside where they belong, they just better not be inside of my house, this is MY territory. I’m certainly glad that I’m not the one to have made the recent discovery of the Heteropoda, or Huntsman Spider which was found in the Greater Mekong region of Asia.

This giant spider, considered to be the world’s largest spider, has approximately a 12 inches or 30 cm legspan. They get the name Huntsman because they catch their prey by running it down rather than catching it in a web. These spiders do bite but are supposedly not dangerous to humans. I’m not sure that I can believe that a 12 inch spider would not be dangerous to me!

Here’s a view of a Huntsman Spider, although, it is not the recently found world’s largest.