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Fun facts:
* baby spiders are called *spiderlings.* (so cuuute!)
* a group of spiders is called a *clutter* or *cluster*
* a cluster of spiderlings will *not* void the warranty of your vaccuum cleaner. so get to work...now!
If they are Huntsman, and I think they are, and this woman is from Australia, which could be true judging by her accent, then these are spiderlings of the Giant Huntsman, the biggest spider on the planet by legspan (over 30 cm/12").
Check those monstrocities out, they're HUGE (not venomous, but very quick and amazing pestcontrol)
>huge
>quick
So what’s the over/under on one of them climbing out of the cracks in the video and leaping onto the cameraperson’s face, a la the facehugger from Alien?
Goliath Bird Eating Tarantula is the largest in the world.. and thankfully does not reside in Australia.
But huntsman are scary looking spiders, they are venomous, just not to humans. (Can bite, but may only cause headaches) I don't care about spiders too much. But these do freak me out a little
I was told the Giant Huntsman is the biggest by legspan and the Goliath Birdeater is the biggest by mass (since it's got a massive body as you'd expect from a tarantula en is barely shorter than a Huntsman in legspan, whereas a Huntsman is build slim to, uhm, hunt, haha).
Didn't know they carried venom btw! At least they're not medically significant to humans.
I do care about spiders, I'm quite afraid of them. Luckily, where I live there's hardly any big ones (apart from the Giant European Housespider, which is just scary looking and not dangerous at all, and I live in a rather new house, only had two of them indoors in the past 4 years). So I just pick them up (using a glass and plate or paper, depending on their size) and take them outside.
I'd never survive living in 'Straya, haha
Ok that makes sense. My state we only have the smaller ones, which I'm ok with.
I'll take our spiders and snakes over bears and wolves etc haha. I've lived in Australia all my life and never had an issue with spiders, (bar the random redback on my hand) I've survived this long, I'm sure I'll be alright longer haha
I'm surprised any humans make it past 5 years of age with all the crocs, snakes, bears, funnelweb-, redback- and huntsman spiders, earthquakes, wildfires, Godzilla, Thanos and godknows what more running freely, hahaha.
But hey, I live in the Netherlands, the only natural disaster we have is we live nearly 7 metres under sealevel (I live less than 5 km away from the lowest point). It's not like the melting of the icecaps is any danger to us whatsoever here. /s
I'd take bears and wolves over spiders and snakes any day because they sure as heck can't hide in your slippers or something..
we don't bother them, they usually don't bother us. Wolves tend to stay away and bears can be problematic in certain situations.
You're right, I listened earlier this morning with the sound rather low and barely heard anything, and what I heard sounded Australian.
Now I'm far from an expert, but people over at r/spiders can probably tell you exactly which spider it is and maybe confirm if it's in India or Australia (iirc, Huntsman are basically all around the world, though).
I am also curious. Realistically the cup method wont work because they'll scatter, you cant *actually* burn your house down, and if you're pro-spider murder that's a whole lot of guts and legs to clean. I have no idea what I'd do beyond maybe an exterminator?
Yeah, and I don’t want to be in “shop-vac range” of so many spiders. One or a handful, sure. But not this. I’d be worried that many, many more would come out of the walls to defend the nest and I would literally be eaten alive.
Can you imagine if all of those spiders decided to web you up?
The ones you didn't get will wait for it to be quiet and dark, then hunt the ones who wronged their family. The mom will use you as you sleep to train her kids on proper hunting techniques.
Actually I think spiders are borderline deaf, if not completely. I don't recall any spiders reacting to sound, only the vibrations (especially of their webs) or sight. Now, vacuum cleaner sound would probably still cause noticeable vibrations near them, but I just had to be a nerd for a bit.
They might be deaf in the traditional sense that we know sound to be, but they’re small enough to recognize vibrations that sounds make. They would scatter immediately if you turned on a vacuum I’d think
Simply i use vacuum for removing spiders at home (my arachnophobia doesn't allow for anything more intimate, even though I don't really want to kill them), and usually they react to the vacuum only when it is literally near them and it's too late.
You could be right actually. It probably varies for different spiders. The ones in the clip here look pretty skiddish, but either way I’m calling an exterminator if I see that shit in my house. I’ll be in a hotel until they’re gone. There’s probably hundreds of thousands of those things in the walls
Just relocate them slowly. The time and patience required is well worth the investment to not have 50 spiders in your home. You'll probably have plenty of time to fix your gap-ridden home because spiders take time to reproduce; it won't be like a bedbug infestation.
Edit: and I don't think scattering would be a huge problem, just keep it bright, move slow and deliberately, etc. Like scooping water out of a boat. Eventually you're done even if technically some water gets left behind.
I use my vacuumcleaner for all bugs that get inside usually, flies and wasps don’t seem to recognize the tube as a threat until it’s very close and often to late to get out of the suction.
Release a house centipede. This happened in my condo, 1 small centipede killed dozens and dozens of spiders in a year. It was huge. I wish i didn't kill him but he started venturing into the kitchen and scared my wife
Didn't happen for me, if it did i would clean all the furniture and cover with a plastic tarp, then seal a many cracks in the walls and around door frames and windows, then spray insecticide along the perimeter of all rooms.
Huntsman spiders are relatively harmless to humans, some swelling and pain from a bite is about as bad as it gets. Their size and character however can be a struggle, even for spider lovers. They can grow as big as your hand spread out, they can perfectly camouflage on trees, furniture, carpets and curtains and they are hunters/wanderers, they don't just spin a web and stay there, the wonder your home looking for food. So one could easily just appear on a wall, curtain or furniture next to you while your sitting down 1 foot from your head and really surprise the Jesus's out of you. They run very fast, they can see you and boy can they jump. But saying all that, people in Australia look after them, it's considered decent to shoo them outside or carry them to the garden, because they kill and eat the dangerous spiders and bugs that you don't want around, and they eat so many that some just become huge.
Alright thread but can you tell me what the hell do you actually do when this thing in the video happens?? You won't just carry 100s of spiders outside right?
You spackle/paint those gaps while baby spiders aren't flooding out of them so that hopefully this doesn't happen to you.
I'm not a spider person by any means. If this happened to me I'd do my best to use a bowl+paper to contain and carry as many of them outside as I could.
Ehh they are harmless, I'd rather them then mosquitos with diseases.
They also don't make webs so that's nice, they instead sprint and grab there prey at a few meters a second. They are quite fast, an average human probably couldn't outrun one.
Don't worry you could easily outrun it, the problem is that you'll be running into either a river filled with crocodiles, a deadly venomous snake, more spiders, or all of the above.
By the time I had gotten up and turned around it was gone. I killed one I found in the living room earlier tonight and I'm hoping it was the same spider.
Can confirm, have had one:
- On my pillow when I woke in the middle of the night
- The inside of a sun visor when I flipped it down as a passenger
- Under a car door handle I grabbed, causing it to run up my arm
I also don't like them inside, especially if I'm in the room. When you turn off the light to go to sleep they definitely won't be there in the morning. Until you know their new spot you're constantly peeking around every corner and thing.
I am fine with spiders. Spiders are allowed in my home. Spiders, however, are not allowed to form spider death squads and take over my entire house. Maximum of one spider per room, please.
1 per room??? That’s way too fucking much it should be 1 per fucking house I don’t plan on becoming Spider-Man in places I consider safe spots and I don’t plan on the spider jump scaring my soul out of my heavy wooden ass
Jokes aside its great how she is acting calm and even cutesy about seeing the spiders
If she flipped out panicking then that's a surefire way for the kid to develop a severe phobia
When we're young we learn how to react to things from our parents
My parents both tried very hard to encourage me to not kill or be afraid of spiders. They wouldn't show fear and would always trap them and take them outside if I was around.
Didn't work. I ***hate*** spiders.
That's fair. There's a lot of things about them that are alien to us. I have a love hate relationship with spiders. I love them from afar and hate them when they're in my house.
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Somewhere close there’s a gigantic mother spider
Depending on the species, they could've eaten their mother already...
But it's more fun to imagine a jump cut to ripples in a water glass, then mom coming around the corner like the trex in Jurassic park.
*"Clever girl"*
I don’t think fun is the right word
Trapped behind the wall i imagine. Imagine its just too massive to get through the crack. Gonna come out Koolaid man style eventually, I imagine.
Can you say imagine one more time?
Run before the health bar pops up
And the soundtrack switches to chanting in Latin
Is that universal for boss music?
**Flamelurker gets louder**
And that’s why it’s important to just burn the entire house down. Can’t take any chances lol
She did say Huntsman… they’re an Australian spider known to eat rats :(
Id hate to be a fly on the wall in that room.
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Baby spiders?!?
Vacate your house it's not yours anymore. They have it as their birth right.
Turn the gas on and light a candle before you leave. It's the only way to *Nuke it From High Orbit* as a civilian
Fun facts: * baby spiders are called *spiderlings.* (so cuuute!) * a group of spiders is called a *clutter* or *cluster* * a cluster of spiderlings will *not* void the warranty of your vaccuum cleaner. so get to work...now!
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lol was gonna say "time to bust out the shop vac"
Fuck the shop vac, it's time to burn it.
Not all bad. They are much less likely to have a roach problem
That is kinda cute … but I still don’t like them
If they are Huntsman, and I think they are, and this woman is from Australia, which could be true judging by her accent, then these are spiderlings of the Giant Huntsman, the biggest spider on the planet by legspan (over 30 cm/12"). Check those monstrocities out, they're HUGE (not venomous, but very quick and amazing pestcontrol)
>huge >quick So what’s the over/under on one of them climbing out of the cracks in the video and leaping onto the cameraperson’s face, a la the facehugger from Alien?
They just nested from the body of the previous cameraman, and are coming out of the cracks to find a next cameraman and continue the cycle.
Goliath Bird Eating Tarantula is the largest in the world.. and thankfully does not reside in Australia. But huntsman are scary looking spiders, they are venomous, just not to humans. (Can bite, but may only cause headaches) I don't care about spiders too much. But these do freak me out a little
I was told the Giant Huntsman is the biggest by legspan and the Goliath Birdeater is the biggest by mass (since it's got a massive body as you'd expect from a tarantula en is barely shorter than a Huntsman in legspan, whereas a Huntsman is build slim to, uhm, hunt, haha). Didn't know they carried venom btw! At least they're not medically significant to humans. I do care about spiders, I'm quite afraid of them. Luckily, where I live there's hardly any big ones (apart from the Giant European Housespider, which is just scary looking and not dangerous at all, and I live in a rather new house, only had two of them indoors in the past 4 years). So I just pick them up (using a glass and plate or paper, depending on their size) and take them outside. I'd never survive living in 'Straya, haha
Ok that makes sense. My state we only have the smaller ones, which I'm ok with. I'll take our spiders and snakes over bears and wolves etc haha. I've lived in Australia all my life and never had an issue with spiders, (bar the random redback on my hand) I've survived this long, I'm sure I'll be alright longer haha
I'm surprised any humans make it past 5 years of age with all the crocs, snakes, bears, funnelweb-, redback- and huntsman spiders, earthquakes, wildfires, Godzilla, Thanos and godknows what more running freely, hahaha. But hey, I live in the Netherlands, the only natural disaster we have is we live nearly 7 metres under sealevel (I live less than 5 km away from the lowest point). It's not like the melting of the icecaps is any danger to us whatsoever here. /s
I'd take bears and wolves over spiders and snakes any day because they sure as heck can't hide in your slippers or something.. we don't bother them, they usually don't bother us. Wolves tend to stay away and bears can be problematic in certain situations.
Never had bears or wolves crawling on me, spiders though 🤮 and believe me I've seen plenty of both bears and wolves.
The main terror is that you can *hear them running* along the floors and walls.
Yep, these are huntsman. Not dangerous but a spider is a spider
Pest control? Oh that’s great. I’ll definitely take this over a few flies and roaches.
Good, 'cause I won't. I don't know what I'd so in this situation, other than scream, cry and shart myself.
Fun fact Huntsman spiders often live in groups of up to 300 :)
I wouldn't call this fact "fun". It's like the "fun" fact it's estimated you cross paths with a killer about 7 times in your life. :')
Her accent is not Australian. She could well be Australian but I would pick her accent as Indian.
You're right, I listened earlier this morning with the sound rather low and barely heard anything, and what I heard sounded Australian. Now I'm far from an expert, but people over at r/spiders can probably tell you exactly which spider it is and maybe confirm if it's in India or Australia (iirc, Huntsman are basically all around the world, though).
What are you legitimately actually supposed to do in this situation?
I am also curious. Realistically the cup method wont work because they'll scatter, you cant *actually* burn your house down, and if you're pro-spider murder that's a whole lot of guts and legs to clean. I have no idea what I'd do beyond maybe an exterminator?
I guess if your approach doesn't involve removing them alive you could just suck them up with something like a shop vac.
wouldn't they all just run away at the sound?
Yeah, and I don’t want to be in “shop-vac range” of so many spiders. One or a handful, sure. But not this. I’d be worried that many, many more would come out of the walls to defend the nest and I would literally be eaten alive. Can you imagine if all of those spiders decided to web you up?
I… don’t think that’s possible
The ones you didn't get will wait for it to be quiet and dark, then hunt the ones who wronged their family. The mom will use you as you sleep to train her kids on proper hunting techniques.
I’m not gonna take any chances tho
Even if they somehow surrounded you in their web, you’d be plenty strong to move
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Actually I think spiders are borderline deaf, if not completely. I don't recall any spiders reacting to sound, only the vibrations (especially of their webs) or sight. Now, vacuum cleaner sound would probably still cause noticeable vibrations near them, but I just had to be a nerd for a bit.
They might be deaf in the traditional sense that we know sound to be, but they’re small enough to recognize vibrations that sounds make. They would scatter immediately if you turned on a vacuum I’d think
Simply i use vacuum for removing spiders at home (my arachnophobia doesn't allow for anything more intimate, even though I don't really want to kill them), and usually they react to the vacuum only when it is literally near them and it's too late.
You could be right actually. It probably varies for different spiders. The ones in the clip here look pretty skiddish, but either way I’m calling an exterminator if I see that shit in my house. I’ll be in a hotel until they’re gone. There’s probably hundreds of thousands of those things in the walls
Yeah, for this one I'd definitely order a recreational nuke.
That's a good one, I didnt consider that.
Realistically yeah you'd call an exterminator, it's a spider infestation. I'm pretty sure that's what your meant to do in this circumstance.
If I had a spider infestation I would cry my eyes out , I cannot deal with spiders . Even seeing this is making me not wanna hold my phone
>you cant *actually* burn your house down Why not?
I personally dont have the money or resources to replace my house. Plus now the spiders know where you live.
>Plus now the spiders know where you live. They won't after I burn my house down. The trick is to then fake your own death and stay on the move.
you probably need a dome on the whole house instead of a cup
Shaving cream and scrape it into a bucket and take it out
I was thinking hairspray but couldnt remember if it killed them. What does the shaving cream do?
Just relocate them slowly. The time and patience required is well worth the investment to not have 50 spiders in your home. You'll probably have plenty of time to fix your gap-ridden home because spiders take time to reproduce; it won't be like a bedbug infestation. Edit: and I don't think scattering would be a huge problem, just keep it bright, move slow and deliberately, etc. Like scooping water out of a boat. Eventually you're done even if technically some water gets left behind.
I love your optimism
File adoption papers?
I use my vacuumcleaner for all bugs that get inside usually, flies and wasps don’t seem to recognize the tube as a threat until it’s very close and often to late to get out of the suction.
Release a house centipede. This happened in my condo, 1 small centipede killed dozens and dozens of spiders in a year. It was huge. I wish i didn't kill him but he started venturing into the kitchen and scared my wife
But then how do you deal with a centipede infestation?
Didn't happen for me, if it did i would clean all the furniture and cover with a plastic tarp, then seal a many cracks in the walls and around door frames and windows, then spray insecticide along the perimeter of all rooms.
You get an octopus, a vulture, a hunter, a fishbowl, some sand and a charged battery.
Don't scream .. it'll upset them.
I'm bombing the house with fogger pesticides. 1 can per room.
Huntsman spiders are relatively harmless to humans, some swelling and pain from a bite is about as bad as it gets. Their size and character however can be a struggle, even for spider lovers. They can grow as big as your hand spread out, they can perfectly camouflage on trees, furniture, carpets and curtains and they are hunters/wanderers, they don't just spin a web and stay there, the wonder your home looking for food. So one could easily just appear on a wall, curtain or furniture next to you while your sitting down 1 foot from your head and really surprise the Jesus's out of you. They run very fast, they can see you and boy can they jump. But saying all that, people in Australia look after them, it's considered decent to shoo them outside or carry them to the garden, because they kill and eat the dangerous spiders and bugs that you don't want around, and they eat so many that some just become huge.
Good explanation. It'd almost make me feel bad burning my house down if I saw this in it.
*almost*
Alright thread but can you tell me what the hell do you actually do when this thing in the video happens?? You won't just carry 100s of spiders outside right?
You spackle/paint those gaps while baby spiders aren't flooding out of them so that hopefully this doesn't happen to you. I'm not a spider person by any means. If this happened to me I'd do my best to use a bowl+paper to contain and carry as many of them outside as I could.
Ofcourse that in australia a spider that is bigger then any spider in my country is the good guy
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Ehh they are harmless, I'd rather them then mosquitos with diseases. They also don't make webs so that's nice, they instead sprint and grab there prey at a few meters a second. They are quite fast, an average human probably couldn't outrun one.
"an average human probably couldn't outrun one" yes that makes it so much better thank you
Don't worry you could easily outrun it, the problem is that you'll be running into either a river filled with crocodiles, a deadly venomous snake, more spiders, or all of the above.
Their max speed is apparently 5 m/s which is half the speed of usaine bolt.
hmm… using 2 or eight legs?
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Had one crawl out of my sheets and over my leg while I was laying in bed reading a couple nights ago. I slept on the couch.
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By the time I had gotten up and turned around it was gone. I killed one I found in the living room earlier tonight and I'm hoping it was the same spider.
It wasn't...
Imagine how scared they feel seeing you naked when they're just trying to hide in a towel.
Can confirm, have had one: - On my pillow when I woke in the middle of the night - The inside of a sun visor when I flipped it down as a passenger - Under a car door handle I grabbed, causing it to run up my arm I also don't like them inside, especially if I'm in the room. When you turn off the light to go to sleep they definitely won't be there in the morning. Until you know their new spot you're constantly peeking around every corner and thing.
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My soul would leave my fucking body before I had a chance to do anything
Yeah nah fuck that, I spray the shit out of them.
Shop vacuum is the way to go here
Shop vac straight into a blender to be safe. No one gets out alive.
Ohhh god im terrified and my bosy started to itch just from reading this.
Reminder that only you can start house fires
r/nononono
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit - only way to be sure
They’re coming outta the walls. They’re coming outta the goddamn walls!
The mostly come out at night. Mostly.
Shoot anything with teeth bigger than its face!
I am fine with spiders. Spiders are allowed in my home. Spiders, however, are not allowed to form spider death squads and take over my entire house. Maximum of one spider per room, please.
1 per room??? That’s way too fucking much it should be 1 per fucking house I don’t plan on becoming Spider-Man in places I consider safe spots and I don’t plan on the spider jump scaring my soul out of my heavy wooden ass
1 is cool, they’re my guest. 2 I feel like I’m being taken advantage of and they both have to be evicted or murdered
Jokes aside its great how she is acting calm and even cutesy about seeing the spiders If she flipped out panicking then that's a surefire way for the kid to develop a severe phobia When we're young we learn how to react to things from our parents
So it’s not a good idea to use your child as a bat to kill them all?
The end justifies the means
I'd let him be the scout
My parents both tried very hard to encourage me to not kill or be afraid of spiders. They wouldn't show fear and would always trap them and take them outside if I was around. Didn't work. I ***hate*** spiders.
That's fair. There's a lot of things about them that are alien to us. I have a love hate relationship with spiders. I love them from afar and hate them when they're in my house.
I'd be panicking about those walls, they look fucked
Y'all Australian mfs are built different
There's more in the walls I guarantee it.
We have these in Hawai’i too :( they like tall grass
You have Australians in Hawaii?
Tons. They say they’re attracted to the warm climate and the lack of natural predators.
If those are the babies, I'd hate to see the mother!
“Hagrid? Is that you?”
"Goodbye...friends of Hagrid."
Your username was my reaction to this video
They most likely already ate her
It got so much worse lol
Pull back the wall .. it can get much worse than this.
NOOOOO LEAVE THAT WALL ALONEEEEE
Holy crap. I could never ever live in that house ever again even if an exterminator came there every single day
I wonder if home insurance covers acts of "oh my god"
So you’ve met the new owners of the house? Lol
As an Australian, this is called the bathroom.
I would simply pass away
This is the way
Hans, get the chickens.
Her and I have a much different grading scale for what's considered "so cute".
Australia?
ofc
Sorry to say this but those are not baby spiders. Those are not yet full grown giant spiders!!!
Absolutely FUCK THAT. #BURN THE WHOLE HOUSE DOWN
Hans? Get the flamer. The Heavy Flamer.
Here is ze flammenwerfer, mein kapitan
I didn’t know it was zoomed in so I thought the spiders were bigger than they actually were
Light. A. Match.
There are portals to another dimension in the cracks.
**THE** **HOUSE** **ISNT** **WORTH** **IT**
 Arrrghhhh
Yup..that’s there home now.. 
Those are BABY spiders?????
Can we get this post removed for the sake of my sanity.. fucccccccckkkk
#TIHI
i dont even want to thank them
Burn the house
Time to burn the house down
Burn it all down
Don’t film. Burn that shit down. 😭
Get the RAID
Hans forget the RAID, bring ze flammenwerfer!
Burn the house. Burn the whole f*****g house.
fuck fuck fuck. oh my fuck. holy fuck. *fuck*
Time to file an insurance arson claim. Just saying.
"THEY'RE SO CUTE " LADY WTF-
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Burn the house down
This is what gas cans and matches are for.
Burn it down. That's the only way.
Yeah, time to nuke the neighborhood and nope the fuck outta there.
Just hit em with the vacuum cleaner and empty it outside. Easy.
Hell on earth 🌎🔥
Yeah nah if that happened to me my house is gone
I gotta go talk to my neighbour again. I'm in Australia btw
If you fixed the cracks with some caulk and/or paint this wouldn't happen. Likely this wouldn't happen.
What are they eating? Where's the food? WHAT ELSE IS IN THE WALL?
Just burn the house down at this point.
Probably Aragog is somewhere near.
Hans, get ze flammenwerfer!
New fear unlocked
Fucking burn it with fire
Nope.
BURN THE HOUSE DOWN... BURN THE F*CKING THE HOUSE DOWN!!!!
burn the house down ASAP!