I rescued a thirsty huintsman last year. He was only as big as my hand and was happy when I gave him a drink from a dropper then a couple of days later he was feeling better so invited his girlfriend in. During the day he'd hide behind a picture on my hallway wall and race me down the passage when I walked through then he would hide in my office chair overnight and tap on my shoulder reminding me to water him in the morning.
One of the creepiest things about huntsmans is that when they are big enough, you can hear them running… Imagine sitting in a dark, quiet room and suddenly hearing giant spider footsteps running toward you!
Lived in a very old farm house for about 10 years. Had that happen so many times i started sleeping with the light on. I hate spiders but i have learnt to give them their spaces. I still sleep with a light handy.... And a big book just in case.
I acquired the magic abilities to teleport and scream like a 12 year old girl, when i started my motorbike and had a huntsman run out onto the tank. The f*cker was bigger than my hand. In less than a second I was standing 2 meters away before my bike fell over. F*cking PTSD and and rocking back and forth in the shower. Just so people can know, they do bite and it feels like a smoke being put out on your skin.
@@Jordy120 LMAO check your bike helmet too I've had a little one on the inside...shudder.... Bad enough in the car when you've got the window down and one of the biggest I've ever seen decides to climb in - I screamed like a girl too...admittedly am one but still not proud of it!
I needed something funny to watch after SCOTUS made the most horrific ruling ever. Years ago when I was living in a remote part of the Victorian High Country, Swedish friends came to visit me. The topic of spiders came up as we sat at the dining table. Lotte remarked that spiders were the only thing she hated about Australia whilst her husband took a more laid back, almost scoffing approach. Sitting just a half meter above his head on the wall which was stained pine and almost perfectly camouflaged was a giant Huntsman. I just pointed my finger, he turned his head to look up and he took off across the table at breakneck speed. A couple of nice wine glasses were lost that evening.🤣
"I needed something funny to watch after SCOTUS made the most horrific ruling ever." The 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that led to the deaths of tens of millions of unborn babies?
@PJRayment You think women having access to their basic human rights (bodily automitty) is worse than the implications of making the president a king, especially on the cusp of having one with so little respect for democracy being in office. At least in a democracy people can debate topics like this, instead of having someone else'abitary rules based on religion and feels. If you deal with facts and logic, then it is easier to understand why you shouldn't remove that choice from others. Forcing others to obey your religious laws, giving leaders dictator powers, rampantly corrupt supreme court going against the will of the majority, billions of dollars in nepotism and kickbacks, weakening of alliances with known allies while pandering to those who would like to see America fall. I am starting to think you don't want or deserve a democracy, but it seems unfair to take it off everyone just cause of some people who have twisted and weaponised patriotism for their own gains
I may have mentioned before I was bitten by a White Tail Spider on the foot. Turned Septic and 7 days had my left leg amputated below the knee. Was better than Dieing . Walking again on a prosthesis, doing well for a 70 year old.🕷️ 6:566:57
I was heaps more fortunate was bitten on the jaw while sleeping by on .i must ve rolled on it because i woke up in morning after going to shave and touchng bite felt like fire seen it went to hosp and had blood syringed out was rusty colored . but no after effects took spider to hosp for ID
trevorkid....years ago my mum visited from England & was bitten by a white tail. 2 days later her foot was deep purple,almost black.After a 2 day hospital stay & a semi-load of drugs she returned to my Riverstone (Syd) home. It took her around 15 months to fully recover back in the UK. I have still never seen a white tail except for photos,but it was definitely one of those mongrels that did the damage.
Every time an American reacts to Australia,s venomous creatures , I think of “ the land of the free and the home of the brave “ and piss myself laughing .
@@sprig5173and wolves mountain lions bobcats lynxes wolves coyotes moose elk bison and guns. What do we have? A few little spiders that we hardly ever see.
I had a Huntsman living in amongst the frameword of my motorbike fairing for months, ( he was well travelled). Often when I stopped to buy fuel it would come out of hiding to run across my screen, and I would try to catch him. Some months later I was prepared and managed to snare him and put him on a nearby Maccas sign. He probably still tells stories of his motorcycling days. I once went to turn on a welder at work and almost put my hand on a Redback spider wrapping up a Scorpion. They were both common in the rural area where I lived.
The house would most likely be a "Queenslander". A house on stilts with a covered balcony all the way around on the first floor, and garage or storage on the ground level.
Yep, they were built on stilts to get them off the ground and allow air to circulate under them, this kept the homes away from the hot ground and helped cool them with the breeze. Many homes have had basic walls built around the outside of the stilts to enclose them and make an above ground "basement". It defeats the original cooling design, butneith modern air-conditioning that's not really required as much.
I agree, especially given that in 2023, Australia's life expectancy was ranked 10th in the world. Goes to show that for all the supposed dangerous animals and insects we are doing OK. For comparison, the United States ranked 47th.
I have walking into many spider webs in the dark, resulting in wolf spiders on my nose. At dusk I've come across our dirt road 'moving', turned out to be many, many huntsman spiders coming off the trees that covered the track. I live on a farm, our spiders are allowed to keep their webs around the windows because they keep all the insects out. They can be very helpful when insects are plentiful.
Wold spiders are a run down and kill spider, they dont usually make large webs. In trees you will get Golden Orbs, St andrews cross, leaf curlers and many related species
When I was a kid in Nth Qld it was frogs everywhere. You couldn't walk in your yard without stepping on them. They would hang around houses because insects were attracted to the light.
One day as I was fixing my bed and shaking the doona (Duvet) I heard a clunk sound against the wall. I thought "What the hell was that?!" So, I went over to have a look and sure enough a huge Huntsman came crawling up the wall. So basically, I had spent the night with an uninvited guest in my bed. Didn't even share its name. The cheeky bugger!
I had a similar experience as a kid with a white tail. Was making my bed in the morning and flicked the top sheet up, a very large white tail ran out from under it. I’d spent the night with that damn thing in the bed.
@@kittyr6534 One of the reasons I try not to sleep in the nude. It's the spider I find the most where I live. I remember at my Mum's place, many years back, I found 22 of the buggers around the house on the same day. It's part of living in Australia dealing with arachnids and insects.
We live on a bush block east of Melbourne Victoria. When it is hot in the metal roof, the spiders move into the house where it is cooler. When my kids were little, when we found Huntsman spiders on the walls in the house, we would name the spider. All the names started with H, Harry, Hudson, Humphrey, etc. … the Huntsman. If they got to a point where I could catch them, I would use the spider catching jar and take them outside. One spider I took out and dropped it on the grassy embankment behind the house and as I was walking back to the house, I heard a flutter, as I looked around there was a Kookaburra with the spider in its beak looking at me as if to say, “Thanks for the feed”.
They don't travel in packs here. They move in herds, because the sound they make (especially when tourists are around) sounds like an enormous heard of cows bellowing at top volume.
They kill more people than all snakes and other spiders combined. Ever been driving to work, pulled down the sun visor and a fuck off big huntsman lands on your face? I had a head on collision but thankfully other than a broken leg and a few broken ribs I was ok. This is not an isolated story!
They ARE poisonous, just not aggressive and their venom is not dangerous. They belong to the "Badge" family (on the under belly is a prominent badge) and some badge spiders are indeed fast, aggressive and nasty.
Never been bitten by one, apparently it’s a very painful bite, but that’s about it, unless you have an allergy, which some people do. But that’s not gonna un-alive you.
When I was a kid I'd go into the bush with my grandfather who was an ornithologist. We would often find huge spiders & webs in 'dead finish' trees which are a species of acacia. The webs were so strong you couldn't walk through a big one if you accidentally ran into it, you'd bounce back a bit. They would sometimes catch Zebra Finches that nested in the trees. And the spiders in the webs were huge. The worst thing was walking into a web & feeling something heavy land on your back, neck or head.
A couple of years back I had a huntsman spider the size of my palm crawl out from behind the passenger visor while I was driving and parked itself above my head until I had parked.😂
Before I knew baby Brown snakes had black heads & a stripe, I found one on the kitchen floor, thinking it was a little grass snake. I picked it up and showed it to the kids, then took it outside & let it go in the garden. Next thing I found was a scorpion on the couch.
@@mardyroux8136 That was over 20 years ago & I was always good with reptiles. Years later I did a Snake Catching course with WildCare. I now catch big Browns around the house & release them by the river.
Had plenty of spiders inside, mostly huntsmans ( They only keep the insect numbers down in the house, a good thing ), no snakes so far, the blue tongue lizard was a bit of a problem to evict, he/she just didn't want to leave. About 18 inch-2 ft long. I was trying not to hurt it.
One of my grandsons in Queenland, 12-yr old Giichi, has a Coastal Carpet Python as a pet. You'll be happy to learn that Perseus (the python) has a favourite food - mice!
I once was camping and went to the public bathroom at night only to find the lights weren't working for some odd reason so I walked in blind. I realised I could use my phone as a flashlight so I turned it on and immediately spotted a huge huntsman spider crawling on the bathroom door. I use a torch now when out camping at night...
Australian fire fighters are so brave, Huntsman spiders run from fires and jump from the trees to be rescued be the firefighters. They generally like to ride on their backs until they feel safe.
Not you visibly recoiling after the spooder climbed out 😂 that’s a little one too. I had one in my house a couple of months ago eating the mozzies and my kid found it and started patting it because if furry, it friend. We put him outside and watched him go on his merry way. My rule is, if it’s a spider that can hurt you in a high traffic living space, it gets acquainted with my shoe. If it’s a huntsman minding its business and eating other pests, it gets a name. The one we released was Hairy Potter 😅
I usually train my spiders each spring to not build their webs in my walkway from my house to the garage. The anchor points on their web are not sticky, so if you carefully break the bottom two anchor threads and let the web fall back into the bushes, eventually the spider will get sick of rebuilding and just build their web higher above my head or to one side of my walkway. I had one spider who would build her web in front of my window on my verandah and used my living room light to attach prey. Every morning she would pack it up and rebuild it in the evening again. She was so neat and I miss her.
I have a huntsman in my apartment in Sydney near CBD (downtown). He is great! Helps keep the other insects at bay! Love him. Pops out every now and then. Scared the bejeezus out of me one night when I went to the loo in the dark. Forgot he was there. We had a good long chat and he promised not to pop out like that when I’m half asleep.
"In America the spiders don't travel in packs" That's where you're going wrong with their training. That possum is thinking, "FFS, Gary, we had an agreement about you not trippin' on red cordial while I'm sleeping!"
When we stayed at my grandmother’s old house in the country my uncle used to say the giant huntsmen spiders upstairs were so big they’d bark at you. He wasn’t exaggerating 😬. At night they’d walk across the ceiling and it freaked me out so much I’d sleep under the covers with the lights on
That little snake with the redback spider, was a baby Eastern Brown Snake. Absolutely DEADLY, as the babies cant control the amount of venom released in a bite yet. The one Snake you don't want to meet in Australia Ryan.😮
Luckily they’re pretty shy and stay out of your way if you walk firmly and stay where you can see them. Just give them a chance to move. Tiger snakes are the ones that scare me. They might not be as poisonous, but they’re aggressive a..holes
Aussie with American husband here. Im always preaching to him to check his work boots each morning, this would have prevented him from walking around with a mouse in his boot all day. We had the most incredible mouse plague a few years back.
When I go bush walking early or on a remote track, you get a long stick and put it out front moving up and down. Removes most webs and spiders before they get to you. Those first spiders (golden orbs) try lower but will quickly learn walking tracks and move above or to the side.
I used to live in the mid-north of South Australia in a small town, we stored a dozen sheets of corrugated iron raised off the ground by wooden beams. They'd been stored for several years, when it came to moving them we lifted the first sheet of iron to find a redback cluster of 20+ spiders with webbing... and that was just the top sheet of iron lifted. There were more redbacks between other sheets but not as many as that top layer. Only ever see a single spider at once... nah mate, clusters!
Huntsman are really big softies, they generally don't take offence to being carefully handled by humans. However if they run across you on a hot summer's night and you are trying to sleep, their little feet are sharp so gently just move them off your bed. They make short work of flies, mozzies and midges.
Happy Spider Day! 🤠 Just leave them alone and they'll be on their way soon! The redback definitely beat the snake! The house was a Queenslander, supposed to be on stilts for cooling and flood prevention, cute possum! I don't recommend a shoey with that guy, they can run really fast! Agh, Australia just grab a chair and beer, and watch the chaos! 😄
I'm a tall guy almost 7 foot tall and always walk in last spot in bush walking. that way everyone has scared the snakes away and i just need to watch out for spiders
6:50 Under the house areas are often in the north where they are more likely to get floods. In worst drought on record many closed in space underneath to create more space.
My friend used to relocate huntsmans by hand until she got bitten on the finger one time and its fangs got stuck. She hand to really shake it off. But It was pretty wild seeing it hanging off her hand by its fangs.
a lot of homes in rural areas especially are biult on stilts to raise them off the ground (flooding) these spaces are usually used as garages or staorage areas... As for spiders in shoes , we learn from an early age to always check out shoes before putting them on. This also applies to washing hanging on the line or gardening gloves sitting out in the open.... they will find anything confined and dark appealing
I can't remember when I last saw a spider of any kind in my house. About a year ago I despatched a few red backs but I haven't seen anything since. You have rattlesnakes in the US. We don't have them here. Even worse you have nut cases running around with guns. We don't have that problem here in Australia.
Haha. Actually used to have a possum living in my garage too because I had to always leave the door up because I’ve got an old Cadillac that didn’t fully fit. Ended up with generations of them over time. Australia 🇦🇺 here too.
P.S. In Australia, you should insect bomb your house about once a year. Open all internal doors clear away all cooking utensils etc. Then take the number of cans required to be sufficient coverage of the areas. I would start in the attic then the back of the house working my way through until I finally got to the garage. I would always plan this on a day we would be out for several hours as required to be safe to enter again. It would put down a fine mist and last for a good number of months. Job done, no worries mate!
My boy left his football boots outside the back door for a week or so and then wouldn't put them on because there were spider webs in them. I reached in and cleaned out both boots with my bare hands and it was like a bag of cotton. I told him to harden up. 10 seconds later when the redback came dangling down from inside the boot, I didn't show him or mention it, I just got the fly spray and my shoe and killed it and made a mental note to myself to never do that bare handed again!
Yes they do hang low haha... I had a golden orb spin its web at my front door every night. Every morning it would pack it up and hide, then re-spin at a slightly different spot so I never knew when I would (literally) "face" it coming home at night lol 🤣
Two things about the spider in the kid’s shoe - 1. I’m not sure it is a huntsman. Hard to see especially without my glasses but it looked to me like it might be a wolf spider; and 2. Looks like the poor thing’s leg was stuck to the Velcro, I think that’s why it stopped and sat in that awkward position.
@@kittyr6534 My pleasure; I think they're sometimes called a Sydney huntsman. They can be quite large, I encountered one years ago with legspan big enough to cover a dinner plate. I was startled!
I had a friend in port pirie south Australia and he went out to the garage to ride his motor bike to the shop. He hopped on the bike and put his helmet on which he had hanging off the handle bar and there was a big assed huntsman in it. He literally had the helmet on and was tying the strap when he felt something move pressed against his ear. Now how bloody horrible is that. My spine crawled when he told me. Needless to say he does not keep his helmet in the garage anymore , lol.
Aussie here living in NSW, yeah we get Huntsmans and Redbacks at my workplace all the time amongst many other different types, I mean they're cool if you leave them alone. We also get the odd Foxes, Hares, Stray Cats and Snakes and I work near Bankstown, so that's pretty suburban lol
There was a massive flood that wiped my town out in 2022. In town it was 15 meters (about 45ft) and places out of town it got up 22 meters. Not kidding. You can look it up. Lismore floods.
I took a shortcut through park one night and didn't see the massive web and huge spiders until too late. Next thing I felt the web and then the spiders all over my head and beard. It was one of the scariest things.
I always check my towel before bringing it to my body after a shower, I’ve dried myself a few times with a huntsman trying to cop a feel. I also make my bed before getting into it at night, as spiders and snakes love an unmade bed and a made bed, but this way I won’t have one tickle my leg hairs at night. We also get night tiger snakes here and they like to cuddle under pillows
A good tip…keep fly swatters around the house. I have one in my bedroom, in the lounge/kitchen in the garage so one is always handy. They are great obviously for flies, cockroaches & spiders. I use to use a shoe but a fly swatted is better & you don’t have to get quite as close. A couple of times they jumped at me when I took aim, so I like the swatters better.
My second-worst spider experience was when sitting on the loo one night, I realised there was a large huntsman directly above me. My first-worst experience was braving a look back at the ceiling to find it quite empty ... 🥶
Ryan, we generally do not have basements as such - most detached Australian dwellings built in the last 60-odd years are slab-on-ground construction, where there are foundation beams (about 300mm deep), supporting a 100mm deep slab. There are no basements, and no crawl spaces. In the 1920s through to the 1950s, the preferred methodology was building on "stumps", being either concrete or wooden columns supporting the floor of the dwelling. With this style of construction, you would have a crawl space beneath the floor, generally not internally accessible from the dwelling.
Just did a spin around my house. About 9 inside the house proper, but honestly, they're all house spiders or daddy long legs. Nothing of concern. It's winter, so most spiders are just chilling out and the huntsmen are mostly outdoors.
Up in far North Queensland in the tropics they have the bird eating spider which build bid canopy type webs and can eat birds and small mammals, have a look at them for an interesting critter.
3 ugly and venomous are RedBack, White Tail, and Funnel Web. Huntsman will generally keep away the poisonous ones. Or Pest control will keep em all away easy enough. It's pretty rare for fatality from an Aussie spider bite.
I've lived in Australia for 27 years (Brisbane, Queensland for the past 20). I'm not an outdoors-y person so have only had encounters with spiders at home really. Luckily, the house I've lived in for the past 16 years doesn't have many trees around so the spiders are limited. We did have a golden orb recently, however, who decided it was a good idea to build his (her?) daily web right across the driveway. I was taking the bins to the curb one day and walked straight through it! Apart from that, we do have the odd redback around (I'm always careful picking up things that are either outside or in the garage) and daddy long-legs of course. Not too many huntsman spiders, but yesterday my daughter saw one climbing in her bedroom window (she took the flyscreen off her window for reasons I won't get into here 🙄). She yelled at it and it ran out the window again 😂.
Huntsmen are awesome! I've had heaps of pets roaming around my house. That looked like a smallish one in the shoe, by the way... You can hear them running across the wall - and they also jump too. Saw one jump from above the door onto the adjacent wall, that was impressive!
I’m Australian and am scared of spiders. (I had one land on the back of my neck and give me a nasty bite once, just walking under a tree in the backyard). We regularly have red-backs and huntsmen and even a couple of funnel-webs - horrible to me, but a way of life. My worst experience was going to my father’s holiday house with my husband and kids one weekend. It was only used as a vacation place and left vacant otherwise. My daughter told me the ceiling was “moving” and I looked up to see the ENTIRE ceiling of the WHOLE cottage full of live baby huntsmen spiders. We had to spray the whole place moving backwards, watching them drop at our feet (children outside of course!). My husband had to deal with “mum” and “dad” huntsmen when we found them. I still get nightmares about that. 😬😳
ever seen a best mate driving 110km/h instastop a car and jumpout in the middle of a highway ust because harry the huntsman waas hiding underneath his dashboard mat. he never ended up driving that car again. funbiest moment of my life watching that seen. i mean its only a huntsman. they dont bite well never bitten me
I have many stories, so I’ll share another…my ex-husband is from the UK & we came home to OZ to visit my family. And he spotted spider webs with spiders in the garage & queried if they were ok. My mum angrily said to my dad…haven’t you gotten rid of them yet & he just said…I’ll get to it. Btw They were red back spiders. Not long after we heard the vacuum cleaner going & then stop. My ex came back upstairs & we said what were you doing. He said I got rid of the spiders. I vacuumed them up. We asked…& then what…you just brought them into the house. They will crawl down the vacuum hose & be inside now. He looked so horrified 😂 & of course he rushed to throw out the vacuum bag in the bin. Again he didn’t kill them. He wasn’t up for that 😄
This video is giving me PTSD. I remember walking through a park with my wife looking at flying foxes for the first time in my life. I was in awe and looking up when my wife jerked me back. I was about to walk into the largest web we had ever seen and in the middle was a spider that was probably the size of my hand (including legs). I almost threw up and stayed away from parks for the rest of the trip.
Problem is when you can go about your day not realising the spider is there. We've had several spiders on the ceiling, and you don't realise they're there till you look. There have been several instances where I've just been going about my day when I've looked up and seen a large spider. I just grab a container and a bit of cardboard, trap in the container, and throw it out the backyard. Collect and wash the container l later
Ryan, you'd be fine in Australia. Yes, there are some big, scary looking spiders, such as huntsmans, but they far more frightened of us. Huntsman spiders have good eyesight and use their speed to leg it away from such dangerous titans.
Couple of spider experiences: the first was when I was living in FNQ, the other is a fairly common one in Australia. When I last arrived in FNQ I initially stayed in an old cane farm homestead. The cockroaches were big, but the spiders were bigger. At the time, I did not have a bed, and was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. One night I felt something on me and put on the light. It was a giant grey wolf spider, made even bigger by the shadow it cast from the low angle of the light I had. I was eye to eyes with it, and the whole experience was quite arresting. The more common experience I had was with a huntsman in my car. A bit of sun, I pull down the sun visor, and SUPRISE! Guess who was hiding behind the sun visor?
Huntsmen spiders have free range in the home. They don't have webs either. A like Orb colonies also XD I'm more worried about paper wasps biting me than most spiders here.
Just finished watching this video and went up to the stables to change the rugs on my horse. Put the new rug on, and there crawling across his back was a 4 " spider. Without thinking, I just flicked it off and finished with the rugging process. What else do you do?
Once I put my motorcycle helmet on and there was a huntsman on the visor.... on the inside!! I've since grown to appreciate them and bring them inside the house as they eat the other smaller nastier ones.
Just stay away from the Red backs, I was bitten by one and it was by far one of the most painful things I have ever felt, 3 hours later I was unconscious and woke up in hospital.
Dude, i ran through the bush playing with some mates and there was a massive ORB spider web with the ORB spider in the centre almost as big as your hand......it was dusk and i didnt see it, i ran straight through it and the spider was against my face, and the web which i ran through was keeping it stuck to my head. Lucky i ran into it from the side i did, as the side against my face was the top side of the spider, not the bitey side!
I remember not checking my boots and I realised there was a lump feeling on my foot and I had a quick tap on the shoe and a dead huntsman fell out, probably from me stepping on it
when you're a gardener and have heaps of pots lying around they will live in them....i have had many bites by huntsman, but its just an intermittent sting....they can be so quick to bite a leg etc and disappear before u see them.
"Large huntsman craws out of child's shoe" Me, an Australian:....Are you kidding me mate, that was just a little guy! A little bitty babby spidey dude just trying to hide out for the day! Leave him be and he'll hunt roaches for you.
- I’m I Queensland & one night I rushed into have a pee in an tv ad break & didn’t bother turning the light on because there was enough from the hall. So I’m on the loo & the floor & walls looked like they were moving, so I finish & turn the light on & realise that hundreds of baby spiders were swarming everywhere. I think mama spider had hatched her babies in the drain pipe on the floor & they all crawled up. It was a bit of a Hitchcock moment 😄 - Btw the spiders webs do hang lower. I’m 5”3 & was walking home late one night down a Sydney street with barely any street lights & I was soooo close to walking into a huge web with a huge spider. I didn’t see it until I was right upon it. That spider wasn’t looking friendly either 😁 - I hate mice more!
I’m an Aussie and I can’t believe I got thru that. Wow. Yup still have my fear of spiders. They say confronting your fears helps you overcome them. If anything that only made it worse. 😎🤙🇦🇺
This is why Australians bang their shoes together before putting them on. You never know whose made a home in them.
I’d shove some paper in to prevent it.
Also, stomp on the shoes as well.
I put shoes into plastic airtight containers near the door with the persons' name on them.
73.5 years living in Australia without doing it.
They love stinky shoes 😅
I rescued a thirsty huintsman last year.
He was only as big as my hand and was happy when I gave him a drink from a dropper then a couple of days later he was feeling better so invited his girlfriend in.
During the day he'd hide behind a picture on my hallway wall and race me down the passage when I walked through then he would hide in my office chair overnight and tap on my shoulder reminding me to water him in the morning.
I use a gentle spray bottle. In really hot weather
Do you still have him around?
Cool
Thats ok but when his girlfriend gives live birth there will be hundreds of the little Bs all over your ceiling
One of the creepiest things about huntsmans is that when they are big enough, you can hear them running… Imagine sitting in a dark, quiet room and suddenly hearing giant spider footsteps running toward you!
Lived in a very old farm house for about 10 years. Had that happen so many times i started sleeping with the light on. I hate spiders but i have learnt to give them their spaces. I still sleep with a light handy.... And a big book just in case.
I woke up 2 nights ago and there was one in my hair
Yep, the buggers seem to put on tap shoes at night...so do the cockroaches...
I acquired the magic abilities to teleport and scream like a 12 year old girl, when i started my motorbike and had a huntsman run out onto the tank. The f*cker was bigger than my hand. In less than a second I was standing 2 meters away before my bike fell over. F*cking PTSD and and rocking back and forth in the shower.
Just so people can know, they do bite and it feels like a smoke being put out on your skin.
@@Jordy120 LMAO check your bike helmet too I've had a little one on the inside...shudder.... Bad enough in the car when you've got the window down and one of the biggest I've ever seen decides to climb in - I screamed like a girl too...admittedly am one but still not proud of it!
I needed something funny to watch after SCOTUS made the most horrific ruling ever.
Years ago when I was living in a remote part of the Victorian High Country, Swedish friends came to visit me. The topic of spiders came up as we sat at the dining table. Lotte remarked that spiders were the only thing she hated about Australia whilst her husband took a more laid back, almost scoffing approach. Sitting just a half meter above his head on the wall which was stained pine and almost perfectly camouflaged was a giant Huntsman. I just pointed my finger, he turned his head to look up and he took off across the table at breakneck speed. A couple of nice wine glasses were lost that evening.🤣
"I needed something funny to watch after SCOTUS made the most horrific ruling ever."
The 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that led to the deaths of tens of millions of unborn babies?
@@PJRayment Are you just an idiot, or do you not understand what these rulings mean.
@@PJRayment You haven't heard about the ruling just out from SCOTUS that partially puts the President above the law?
WTF is going on with SCOTUS? 44 previous POTUS don't need immunity and shit for brains does?
@PJRayment
You think women having access to their basic human rights (bodily automitty) is worse than the implications of making the president a king, especially on the cusp of having one with so little respect for democracy being in office.
At least in a democracy people can debate topics like this, instead of having someone else'abitary rules based on religion and feels. If you deal with facts and logic, then it is easier to understand why you shouldn't remove that choice from others.
Forcing others to obey your religious laws, giving leaders dictator powers, rampantly corrupt supreme court going against the will of the majority, billions of dollars in nepotism and kickbacks, weakening of alliances with known allies while pandering to those who would like to see America fall.
I am starting to think you don't want or deserve a democracy, but it seems unfair to take it off everyone just cause of some people who have twisted and weaponised patriotism for their own gains
2:30 I’m betting that baby snake is already dead. Red backs have really strong venom
I may have mentioned before I was bitten by a White Tail Spider on the foot. Turned Septic and 7 days had my left leg amputated below the knee. Was better than Dieing . Walking again on a prosthesis, doing well for a 70 year old.🕷️ 6:56 6:57
I was heaps more fortunate was bitten on the jaw while sleeping by on .i must ve rolled on it because i woke up in morning after going to shave and touchng bite felt like fire seen it went to hosp and had blood syringed out was rusty colored . but no after effects took spider to hosp for ID
trevorkid....years ago my mum visited from England & was bitten by a white tail. 2 days later her foot was deep purple,almost black.After a 2 day hospital stay & a semi-load of drugs she returned to my Riverstone (Syd) home. It took her around 15 months to fully recover back in the UK. I have still never seen a white tail except for photos,but it was definitely one of those mongrels that did the damage.
Yeah whitetails are no joke, many people have lost limbs or appendages to those nasty little buggers.
Some of us just get bruises from them.
Every time an American reacts to Australia,s venomous creatures , I think of “ the land of the free and the home of the brave “ and piss myself laughing .
They have bears over there.
@@sprig5173and wolves mountain lions bobcats lynxes wolves coyotes moose elk bison and guns. What do we have? A few little spiders that we hardly ever see.
@@sprig5173 Interesting....Who would win? A bear versus a Sydney Funnel-web spider? Or an Inland Taipan.
@@jsegal8385 The Funnelweb would lose, as their venom only acts on their prey species and, weirdly, on primates, so a bear would be fine...
We learn from an early age to check our shoes before we put them on.
I had a Huntsman living in amongst the frameword of my motorbike fairing for months, ( he was well travelled). Often when I stopped to buy fuel it would come out of hiding to run across my screen, and I would try to catch him. Some months later I was prepared and managed to snare him and put him on a nearby Maccas sign. He probably still tells stories of his motorcycling days. I once went to turn on a welder at work and almost put my hand on a Redback spider wrapping up a Scorpion. They were both common in the rural area where I lived.
Schrödinger’s Spider. Until you look in the shoe the spider can be considered to be in there or not in there. 🕷️👟
😂
The house would most likely be a "Queenslander". A house on stilts with a covered balcony all the way around on the first floor, and garage or storage on the ground level.
That's what I was thinking. Definitely a Queenslander!
Yep, they were built on stilts to get them off the ground and allow air to circulate under them, this kept the homes away from the hot ground and helped cool them with the breeze.
Many homes have had basic walls built around the outside of the stilts to enclose them and make an above ground "basement".
It defeats the original cooling design, butneith modern air-conditioning that's not really required as much.
@@35manning Yup yup! We were living in one when the floods came in though. Destroyed almost everything stored under there.
Once again, I'd rather deal with venomous (not "poisonous") critters than AR-15s.
I agree, especially given that in 2023, Australia's life expectancy was ranked 10th in the world. Goes to show that for all the supposed dangerous animals and insects we are doing OK. For comparison, the United States ranked 47th.
I have walking into many spider webs in the dark, resulting in wolf spiders on my nose. At dusk I've come across our dirt road 'moving', turned out to be many, many huntsman spiders coming off the trees that covered the track. I live on a farm, our spiders are allowed to keep their webs around the windows because they keep all the insects out. They can be very helpful when insects are plentiful.
The dirt moving 💀
So what part of the country is that? The N.T was pretty populated but i don't think i want to live in the part of the country that happens in. :)
Wold spiders are a run down and kill spider, they dont usually make large webs. In trees you will get Golden Orbs, St andrews cross, leaf curlers and many related species
When I was a kid in Nth Qld it was frogs everywhere. You couldn't walk in your yard without stepping on them. They would hang around houses because insects were attracted to the light.
@@xymonau2468 yep I love frogs. we used to keep them as pets and make them houses. i had a tadpole pond. I loved watching them grow.
One day as I was fixing my bed and shaking the doona (Duvet) I heard a clunk sound against the wall. I thought "What the hell was that?!" So, I went over to have a look and sure enough a huge Huntsman came crawling up the wall. So basically, I had spent the night with an uninvited guest in my bed. Didn't even share its name. The cheeky bugger!
I had a similar experience as a kid with a white tail. Was making my bed in the morning and flicked the top sheet up, a very large white tail ran out from under it. I’d spent the night with that damn thing in the bed.
@@kittyr6534 One of the reasons I try not to sleep in the nude. It's the spider I find the most where I live. I remember at my Mum's place, many years back, I found 22 of the buggers around the house on the same day. It's part of living in Australia dealing with arachnids and insects.
@@kittyr6534 ok, that’s scary. I don’t mind sharing my space with huntsman, but white tails and wolf spiders are a whole different thing
The reaction from the huntsman coming out of the kids shoe was bloody hilarious haha
Huntsman spiders don’t bite unless provoked, or trapped, like in gardening gloves etc.
They will sstand up and bite if they are on the ground outside and feel vulnerable. but otherwise are not afraid of humans
That first spider has a web so strong it can catch a small bird.
And small fish if cast into the local creek
We live on a bush block east of Melbourne Victoria. When it is hot in the metal roof, the spiders move into the house where it is cooler. When my kids were little, when we found Huntsman spiders on the walls in the house, we would name the spider. All the names started with H, Harry, Hudson, Humphrey, etc. … the Huntsman.
If they got to a point where I could catch them, I would use the spider catching jar and take them outside. One spider I took out and dropped it on the grassy embankment behind the house and as I was walking back to the house, I heard a flutter, as I looked around there was a Kookaburra with the spider in its beak looking at me as if to say, “Thanks for the feed”.
🤣I’ve always named mine too. We had “Harold” for about 6 months in our letterbox
The huntsman at the end was small it's when you come across one with the span of a cup saucer and a rear end the size of your thumb that they are big.
They don't travel in packs here. They move in herds, because the sound they make (especially when tourists are around) sounds like an enormous heard of cows bellowing at top volume.
Huntsmen are not poisonous. They are harmless.
They’re really scary though.
They kill more people than all snakes and other spiders combined. Ever been driving to work, pulled down the sun visor and a fuck off big huntsman lands on your face? I had a head on collision but thankfully other than a broken leg and a few broken ribs I was ok.
This is not an isolated story!
The female is slightly venomous.
They ARE poisonous, just not aggressive and their venom is not dangerous. They belong to the "Badge" family (on the under belly is a prominent badge) and some badge spiders are indeed fast, aggressive and nasty.
Never been bitten by one, apparently it’s a very painful bite, but that’s about it, unless you have an allergy, which some people do. But that’s not gonna un-alive you.
When I was a kid I'd go into the bush with my grandfather who was an ornithologist. We would often find huge spiders & webs in 'dead finish' trees which are a species of acacia. The webs were so strong you couldn't walk through a big one if you accidentally ran into it, you'd bounce back a bit. They would sometimes catch Zebra Finches that nested in the trees. And the spiders in the webs were huge. The worst thing was walking into a web & feeling something heavy land on your back, neck or head.
A couple of years back I had a huntsman spider the size of my palm crawl out from behind the passenger visor while I was driving and parked itself above my head until I had parked.😂
Before I knew baby Brown snakes had black heads & a stripe, I found one on the kitchen floor, thinking it was a little grass snake.
I picked it up and showed it to the kids, then took it outside & let it go in the garden. Next thing I found was a scorpion on the couch.
The babies are as deadly as the adults! You're lucky!
@@mardyroux8136 That was over 20 years ago & I was always good with reptiles. Years later I did a Snake Catching course with WildCare. I now catch big Browns around the house & release them by the river.
Had plenty of spiders inside, mostly huntsmans ( They only keep the insect numbers down in the house, a good thing ), no snakes so far, the blue tongue lizard was a bit of a problem to evict, he/she just didn't want to leave. About 18 inch-2 ft long. I was trying not to hurt it.
@@alanhilder1883 Blueys are fine, I have one that pops out and hangs out on my doorstep from time to time. Lovely critters!
@@becsterbrisbane6275 I like them about, just not in the bathroom.
One of my grandsons in Queenland, 12-yr old Giichi, has a Coastal Carpet Python as a pet. You'll be happy to learn that Perseus (the python) has a favourite food - mice!
I once was camping and went to the public bathroom at night only to find the lights weren't working for some odd reason so I walked in blind. I realised I could use my phone as a flashlight so I turned it on and immediately spotted a huge huntsman spider crawling on the bathroom door.
I use a torch now when out camping at night...
Aussie here. I was taught as a kid that you're never more than 3 feet away from a spider at any time. Good to know?? 😱
That is only true if you count Daddy Long Legs which are not scary.
I was literally crying laughing at your reactions, especially to the shoe moving 😂😂😂
Australian fire fighters are so brave, Huntsman spiders run from fires and jump from the trees to be rescued be the firefighters. They generally like to ride on their backs until they feel safe.
Not you visibly recoiling after the spooder climbed out 😂 that’s a little one too. I had one in my house a couple of months ago eating the mozzies and my kid found it and started patting it because if furry, it friend. We put him outside and watched him go on his merry way. My rule is, if it’s a spider that can hurt you in a high traffic living space, it gets acquainted with my shoe. If it’s a huntsman minding its business and eating other pests, it gets a name. The one we released was Hairy Potter 😅
I usually train my spiders each spring to not build their webs in my walkway from my house to the garage. The anchor points on their web are not sticky, so if you carefully break the bottom two anchor threads and let the web fall back into the bushes, eventually the spider will get sick of rebuilding and just build their web higher above my head or to one side of my walkway.
I had one spider who would build her web in front of my window on my verandah and used my living room light to attach prey. Every morning she would pack it up and rebuild it in the evening again. She was so neat and I miss her.
We don't generally have basements but a lot of houses in flood prone areas are on stilts and have a huge usable area under the house.
I have a huntsman in my apartment in Sydney near CBD (downtown). He is great! Helps keep the other insects at bay! Love him. Pops out every now and then. Scared the bejeezus out of me one night when I went to the loo in the dark. Forgot he was there. We had a good long chat and he promised not to pop out like that when I’m half asleep.
"In America the spiders don't travel in packs" That's where you're going wrong with their training.
That possum is thinking, "FFS, Gary, we had an agreement about you not trippin' on red cordial while I'm sleeping!"
😆🤣😂
😂😂😂😂😂 bloody hell, Gary!!
When we stayed at my grandmother’s old house in the country my uncle used to say the giant huntsmen spiders upstairs were so big they’d bark at you. He wasn’t exaggerating 😬. At night they’d walk across the ceiling and it freaked me out so much I’d sleep under the covers with the lights on
I had a pet huntsman that lived in my bathroom for years, I would be having a shower & he would be on the ceiling right above my head!
That little snake with the redback spider, was a baby Eastern Brown Snake. Absolutely DEADLY, as the babies cant control the amount of venom released in a bite yet. The one Snake you don't want to meet in Australia Ryan.😮
Luckily they’re pretty shy and stay out of your way if you walk firmly and stay where you can see them. Just give them a chance to move. Tiger snakes are the ones that scare me. They might not be as poisonous, but they’re aggressive a..holes
Aussie with American husband here.
Im always preaching to him to check his work boots each morning, this would have prevented him from walking around with a mouse in his boot all day.
We had the most incredible mouse plague a few years back.
When I go bush walking early or on a remote track, you get a long stick and put it out front moving up and down. Removes most webs and spiders before they get to you. Those first spiders (golden orbs) try lower but will quickly learn walking tracks and move above or to the side.
You must check out the peacock jumping spider dancing. It is beautiful and amazing. True. Do yourself a favour.
I live in Southeast Queensland. I see peacock spiders often when I go walking around forested creeks. They’re incredibly diverse and beautiful.
I used to live in the mid-north of South Australia in a small town, we stored a dozen sheets of corrugated iron raised off the ground by wooden beams. They'd been stored for several years, when it came to moving them we lifted the first sheet of iron to find a redback cluster of 20+ spiders with webbing... and that was just the top sheet of iron lifted. There were more redbacks between other sheets but not as many as that top layer. Only ever see a single spider at once... nah mate, clusters!
Huntsman are really big softies, they generally don't take offence to being carefully handled by humans. However if they run across you on a hot summer's night and you are trying to sleep, their little feet are sharp so gently just move them off your bed. They make short work of flies, mozzies and midges.
I've had huntsmen on my hand.
They just sit there and look around.
Happy Spider Day! 🤠 Just leave them alone and they'll be on their way soon! The redback definitely beat the snake! The house was a Queenslander, supposed to be on stilts for cooling and flood prevention, cute possum! I don't recommend a shoey with that guy, they can run really fast! Agh, Australia just grab a chair and beer, and watch the chaos! 😄
Where I live they can measure between 10 inches and 12 inches across.
What? The shoes?
@@ozzymick1431 The Huntsman Spider.
I'm a tall guy almost 7 foot tall and always walk in last spot in bush walking. that way everyone has scared the snakes away and i just need to watch out for spiders
6:50 Under the house areas are often in the north where they are more likely to get floods. In worst drought on record many closed in space underneath to create more space.
My friend used to relocate huntsmans by hand until she got bitten on the finger one time and its fangs got stuck. She hand to really shake it off. But It was pretty wild seeing it hanging off her hand by its fangs.
3:25 American spiders might not travel in packs, but your fire ants do! They form rafts from their bodies and spread by floating!
a lot of homes in rural areas especially are biult on stilts to raise them off the ground (flooding) these spaces are usually used as garages or staorage areas... As for spiders in shoes , we learn from an early age to always check out shoes before putting them on. This also applies to washing hanging on the line or gardening gloves sitting out in the open.... they will find anything confined and dark appealing
I can't remember when I last saw a spider of any kind in my house. About a year ago I despatched a few red backs but I haven't seen anything since. You have rattlesnakes in the US. We don't have them here. Even worse you have nut cases running around with guns. We don't have that problem here in Australia.
Haha. Actually used to have a possum living in my garage too because I had to always leave the door up because I’ve got an old Cadillac that didn’t fully fit. Ended up with generations of them over time. Australia 🇦🇺 here too.
P.S. In Australia, you should insect bomb your house about once a year. Open all internal doors clear away all cooking utensils etc. Then take the number of cans required to be sufficient coverage of the areas. I would start in the attic then the back of the house working my way through until I finally got to the garage. I would always plan this on a day we would be out for several hours as required to be safe to enter again. It would put down a fine mist and last for a good number of months. Job done, no worries mate!
My boy left his football boots outside the back door for a week or so and then wouldn't put them on because there were spider webs in them.
I reached in and cleaned out both boots with my bare hands and it was like a bag of cotton.
I told him to harden up. 10 seconds later when the redback came dangling down from inside the boot, I didn't show him or mention it, I just got the fly spray and my shoe and killed it and made a mental note to myself to never do that bare handed again!
Yes they do hang low haha... I had a golden orb spin its web at my front door every night. Every morning it would pack it up and hide, then re-spin at a slightly different spot so I never knew when I would (literally) "face" it coming home at night lol 🤣
Two things about the spider in the kid’s shoe - 1. I’m not sure it is a huntsman. Hard to see especially without my glasses but it looked to me like it might be a wolf spider; and 2. Looks like the poor thing’s leg was stuck to the Velcro, I think that’s why it stopped and sat in that awkward position.
It's a Banded Huntsman, looks like a male.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 thanks! I never heard of a banded huntsman. It's beautiful 😃
@@kittyr6534 My pleasure; I think they're sometimes called a Sydney huntsman. They can be quite large, I encountered one years ago with legspan big enough to cover a dinner plate. I was startled!
I still find it crazy that you can hear huntsman spiders walking on walls.
I had a friend in port pirie south Australia and he went out to the garage to ride his motor bike to the shop. He hopped on the bike and put his helmet on which he had hanging off the handle bar and there was a big assed huntsman in it. He literally had the helmet on and was tying the strap when he felt something move pressed against his ear. Now how bloody horrible is that. My spine crawled when he told me. Needless to say he does not keep his helmet in the garage anymore , lol.
Aussie here living in NSW, yeah we get Huntsmans and Redbacks at my workplace all the time amongst many other different types, I mean they're cool if you leave them alone. We also get the odd Foxes, Hares, Stray Cats and Snakes and I work near Bankstown, so that's pretty suburban lol
There was a massive flood that wiped my town out in 2022. In town it was 15 meters (about 45ft) and places out of town it got up 22 meters. Not kidding. You can look it up. Lismore floods.
I took a shortcut through park one night and didn't see the massive web and huge spiders until too late. Next thing I felt the web and then the spiders all over my head and beard. It was one of the scariest things.
I always check my towel before bringing it to my body after a shower, I’ve dried myself a few times with a huntsman trying to cop a feel. I also make my bed before getting into it at night, as spiders and snakes love an unmade bed and a made bed, but this way I won’t have one tickle my leg hairs at night. We also get night tiger snakes here and they like to cuddle under pillows
Hey Ryan, there are several videos of red back spiders trapping snakes in their web. Fascinating really as the spider usually wins the tussle.
A good tip…keep fly swatters around the house. I have one in my bedroom, in the lounge/kitchen in the garage so one is always handy. They are great obviously for flies, cockroaches & spiders. I use to use a shoe but a fly swatted is better & you don’t have to get quite as close. A couple of times they jumped at me when I took aim, so I like the swatters better.
My second-worst spider experience was when sitting on the loo one night, I realised there was a large huntsman directly above me. My first-worst experience was braving a look back at the ceiling to find it quite empty ... 🥶
Ryan, we generally do not have basements as such - most detached Australian dwellings built in the last 60-odd years are slab-on-ground construction, where there are foundation beams (about 300mm deep), supporting a 100mm deep slab.
There are no basements, and no crawl spaces. In the 1920s through to the 1950s, the preferred methodology was building on "stumps", being either concrete or wooden columns supporting the floor of the dwelling. With this style of construction, you would have a crawl space beneath the floor, generally not internally accessible from the dwelling.
It looks like a Queenslander.
@@JustJokes-bw4fs Ah, yes, I'm born and bred in Brisbane... this probably colours my understanding of local building!
Just did a spin around my house. About 9 inside the house proper, but honestly, they're all house spiders or daddy long legs. Nothing of concern. It's winter, so most spiders are just chilling out and the huntsmen are mostly outdoors.
Has anyone seen the spiders that glide around on the gossamer? The local park looked like it had been snowing... and then I looked a little closer.
Up in far North Queensland in the tropics they have the bird eating spider which build bid canopy type webs and can eat birds and small mammals, have a look at them for an interesting critter.
Fun fact: a pack of spiders is called a swarm
Aussie slag: oh FMD it’s spider swarm season AKA triple S
3 ugly and venomous are RedBack, White Tail, and Funnel Web.
Huntsman will generally keep away the poisonous ones.
Or Pest control will keep em all away easy enough.
It's pretty rare for fatality from an Aussie spider bite.
Since the development of Red Back anti-venom in 1956, there hasn't been a fatality. I don't know about Funnel Webs.
I've lived in Australia for 27 years (Brisbane, Queensland for the past 20). I'm not an outdoors-y person so have only had encounters with spiders at home really. Luckily, the house I've lived in for the past 16 years doesn't have many trees around so the spiders are limited. We did have a golden orb recently, however, who decided it was a good idea to build his (her?) daily web right across the driveway. I was taking the bins to the curb one day and walked straight through it!
Apart from that, we do have the odd redback around (I'm always careful picking up things that are either outside or in the garage) and daddy long-legs of course. Not too many huntsman spiders, but yesterday my daughter saw one climbing in her bedroom window (she took the flyscreen off her window for reasons I won't get into here 🙄). She yelled at it and it ran out the window again 😂.
Huntsmen are awesome! I've had heaps of pets roaming around my house. That looked like a smallish one in the shoe, by the way... You can hear them running across the wall - and they also jump too. Saw one jump from above the door onto the adjacent wall, that was impressive!
I’m Australian and am scared of spiders. (I had one land on the back of my neck and give me a nasty bite once, just walking under a tree in the backyard). We regularly have red-backs and huntsmen and even a couple of funnel-webs - horrible to me, but a way of life. My worst experience was going to my father’s holiday house with my husband and kids one weekend. It was only used as a vacation place and left vacant otherwise. My daughter told me the ceiling was “moving” and I looked up to see the ENTIRE ceiling of the WHOLE cottage full of live baby huntsmen spiders. We had to spray the whole place moving backwards, watching them drop at our feet (children outside of course!). My husband had to deal with “mum” and “dad” huntsmen when we found them. I still get nightmares about that. 😬😳
ever seen a best mate driving 110km/h instastop a car and jumpout in the middle of a highway ust because harry the huntsman waas hiding underneath his dashboard mat. he never ended up driving that car again. funbiest moment of my life watching that seen. i mean its only a huntsman. they dont bite well never bitten me
Running through a spider web and feeling the lump hit you is terrifying 😅
"And, if it's dark out & you didn't know they were there" ... well, THAT'S happened more than once 🤣
I have many stories, so I’ll share another…my ex-husband is from the UK & we came home to OZ to visit my family. And he spotted spider webs with spiders in the garage & queried if they were ok. My mum angrily said to my dad…haven’t you gotten rid of them yet & he just said…I’ll get to it.
Btw They were red back spiders.
Not long after we heard the vacuum cleaner going & then stop. My ex came back upstairs & we said what were you doing. He said I got rid of the spiders. I vacuumed them up.
We asked…& then what…you just brought them into the house. They will crawl down the vacuum hose & be inside now. He looked so horrified 😂 & of course he rushed to throw out the vacuum bag in the bin. Again he didn’t kill them. He wasn’t up for that 😄
Australia does not have basements. We often have a house on stumps and it depends on the height of the stumps if it's storage or living space.
huntsman are useful. we have one named Barry in our house - they keep the other bugs at bay. No flies or cockroaches here.
Not trying to be typical Australian but I study snakes as a hobby
This video is giving me PTSD. I remember walking through a park with my wife looking at flying foxes for the first time in my life. I was in awe and looking up when my wife jerked me back. I was about to walk into the largest web we had ever seen and in the middle was a spider that was probably the size of my hand (including legs). I almost threw up and stayed away from parks for the rest of the trip.
Problem is when you can go about your day not realising the spider is there. We've had several spiders on the ceiling, and you don't realise they're there till you look.
There have been several instances where I've just been going about my day when I've looked up and seen a large spider.
I just grab a container and a bit of cardboard, trap in the container, and throw it out the backyard. Collect and wash the container l later
Ryan, you'd be fine in Australia. Yes, there are some big, scary looking spiders, such as huntsmans, but they far more frightened of us. Huntsman spiders have good eyesight and use their speed to leg it away from such dangerous titans.
Couple of spider experiences: the first was when I was living in FNQ, the other is a fairly common one in Australia. When I last arrived in FNQ I initially stayed in an old cane farm homestead. The cockroaches were big, but the spiders were bigger. At the time, I did not have a bed, and was sleeping on a mattress on the floor. One night I felt something on me and put on the light. It was a giant grey wolf spider, made even bigger by the shadow it cast from the low angle of the light I had. I was eye to eyes with it, and the whole experience was quite arresting. The more common experience I had was with a huntsman in my car. A bit of sun, I pull down the sun visor, and SUPRISE! Guess who was hiding behind the sun visor?
Awesome, here I was looking for a video to watch and yours popped into my notifications
The Huntsman is like do you have a problem with me?
Nah like "they just saw me crawl out of a shoe but if I just stop them might forget I'm here"
😅😅😅😅
Huntsmen spiders have free range in the home. They don't have webs either. A like Orb colonies also XD I'm more worried about paper wasps biting me than most spiders here.
Just finished watching this video and went up to the stables to change the rugs on my horse. Put the new rug on, and there crawling across his back was a 4 " spider. Without thinking, I just flicked it off and finished with the rugging process. What else do you do?
An Australian here, the worst thing is walking 🚶♀️ down the side walk at night 🌙 and a web is stretched across 😮and then face full of web😢
Once I put my motorcycle helmet on and there was a huntsman on the visor.... on the inside!! I've since grown to appreciate them and bring them inside the house as they eat the other smaller nastier ones.
Just stay away from the Red backs, I was bitten by one and it was by far one of the most painful things I have ever felt, 3 hours later I was unconscious and woke up in hospital.
Dude, i ran through the bush playing with some mates and there was a massive ORB spider web with the ORB spider in the centre almost as big as your hand......it was dusk and i didnt see it, i ran straight through it and the spider was against my face, and the web which i ran through was keeping it stuck to my head. Lucky i ran into it from the side i did, as the side against my face was the top side of the spider, not the bitey side!
I remember not checking my boots and I realised there was a lump feeling on my foot and I had a quick tap on the shoe and a dead huntsman fell out, probably from me stepping on it
when you're a gardener and have heaps of pots lying around they will live in them....i have had many bites by huntsman, but its just an intermittent sting....they can be so quick to bite a leg etc and disappear before u see them.
"Large huntsman craws out of child's shoe"
Me, an Australian:....Are you kidding me mate, that was just a little guy! A little bitty babby spidey dude just trying to hide out for the day! Leave him be and he'll hunt roaches for you.
- I’m I Queensland & one night I rushed into have a pee in an tv ad break & didn’t bother turning the light on because there was enough from the hall. So I’m on the loo & the floor & walls looked like they were moving, so I finish & turn the light on & realise that hundreds of baby spiders were swarming everywhere. I think mama spider had hatched her babies in the drain pipe on the floor & they all crawled up. It was a bit of a Hitchcock moment 😄
- Btw the spiders webs do hang lower. I’m 5”3 & was walking home late one night down a Sydney street with barely any street lights & I was soooo close to walking into a huge web with a huge spider. I didn’t see it until I was right upon it. That spider wasn’t looking friendly either 😁
- I hate mice more!
I’m an Aussie and I can’t believe I got thru that. Wow. Yup still have my fear of spiders. They say confronting your fears helps you overcome them. If anything that only made it worse. 😎🤙🇦🇺
At 7:49...it's only a bloody Huntsman, FFS. There's no mention of a Funnel Web, or a Trap Door...pretty bloody tame gig, bro!
You forget to check your shoes for spiders ... once.
The thousands of spiders you see, don’t bite. Some big ones do, but not many.
The redback is simply a black widow, but Aussie one’s are prettier.
The female redbacks have a less defined red area, sometimes none at all, usually bigger.
The reason they are above head height is coz someone else already walked thru there and got a face full.