yet another Melbourne, Australia video demonstrating the Neatorama bias that they love it more than anywhere else in Australia (and so they should!).
The video is real, the spider is real, the accent is from Oz and yes they get that big and bigger again in Sydney (Blue Mountains). I have never seen one in Queensland (up north) but then they have 'Garden Orb' and 'Bird Eating' spiders which may explain why I have never seen a Huntsman there. This year in Melbourne there are few Huntsman's around for some reason (LOL, I just caught myself looking around for one to make sure one isn't sneaking up...they LOVE sneaking up).
However, the Huntsman is your friend. Although they have a 'sharp' bite they are not poisonous, don't like biting humans and eat the killer smaller spiders in your house like the red back and white tail (US=brown recluse). I don't know if they eat funnel webs (that is Sydney's problem) but maybe that is why they are bigger in Sydney http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6951425/Deadly-funnel-web-spiders-invade-Sydney.html
Sorry for the essay but I like to thing of the thing as a lucky talisman for the house.
@18 Johnny Cat: That is indeed what she said. They don't even have a thick accent.
Wow, look at that beauty! Those Japanese are clever. Passing off a ship built in Tasmania (thus the 'devil' look) as one of their own. http://stott.customer.netspace.net.au/devilcat.htm
I thought that was stoners? The commercial is unintentionally ironic as only a loser would drink that brand of beer.
Nice cartoon. Tx.
The video is real, the spider is real, the accent is from Oz and yes they get that big and bigger again in Sydney (Blue Mountains). I have never seen one in Queensland (up north) but then they have 'Garden Orb' and 'Bird Eating' spiders which may explain why I have never seen a Huntsman there. This year in Melbourne there are few Huntsman's around for some reason (LOL, I just caught myself looking around for one to make sure one isn't sneaking up...they LOVE sneaking up).
However, the Huntsman is your friend. Although they have a 'sharp' bite they are not poisonous, don't like biting humans and eat the killer smaller spiders in your house like the red back and white tail (US=brown recluse). I don't know if they eat funnel webs (that is Sydney's problem) but maybe that is why they are bigger in Sydney http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6951425/Deadly-funnel-web-spiders-invade-Sydney.html
Sorry for the essay but I like to thing of the thing as a lucky talisman for the house.
@18 Johnny Cat: That is indeed what she said. They don't even have a thick accent.
Nor have a gun.
http://stott.customer.netspace.net.au/devilcat.htm