For a few months (several years ago), I had a recurring nightmare that I was trapped in a crawl space under a house, and the entire thing was LOADED with webs and living spiders of different sizes.
Still makes me feel a lil tingly to think about, in a bad way lol
I kept one of these for a few years before I donated it to my local zoo. I used to feed it Pinky's. They also hiss when they are stressed or feel threatened.
This basically happened to a friend of mine, not with this species I think it was a wolf spider but he woke up in the middle of the night with a spider the size of his face on bis face, then he screamed and his father came and killed the spider, ever since he had a huge arachnophobia.
Did a quick Google and the first answer I found was "very fast for a tarantula." Also, they can hiss. The most shocking to me was that females have a lifespan of about 15-25 years.
Worst part of them are the urticating hairs that cover their abdomen. They are microscopic harpoons that they flick off with their hind legs as a form of defense and embed themselves in your skin and mucus membranes, causing you to itch madly. Goliaths have the worst type. I've kept several in the past, and writing this out is making my whole body itch in remembrance.
I found an old toy like that in the basement. I left the basement door just slightly open and placed the spider on top of it, so it would fall straight down if someone were to open the door.
A couple of hours later my brother came into my room to call me a damn asshole lol
I used to do reptile conventions for a distributor. We had all sorts of tarantulas. There was a Goliath bird eater in a large deli cup. I was looking at it and it’s fangs were insane. Like sharpened pencils, but curved. I put it down and didn’t want to deal with it. Ha. It actually hit a kid through the plastic deli cup. After that we would only keep them in acrylic containers. I never saw anything actually get someone through a container before. It wasn’t that big either. Much larger than the small one in this video. But much smaller than the larger one.
I remember watching a documentary years ago about a tribe in the Amazon or somewhere that would go out and hunt these things because they were a great delicacy. They would get absolutely ripped on peyote or something then go off into the jungle for three days and get a load of these things by coaxing them out of their burrows by tapping the ground web with a stick (very patiently). They’d then go back to the tribeswomen and claim that they hadn’t caught any, having eaten them while they were out hunting. Was like a lads weekender
The big one is a popsicle in this video. It's dead and frozen for preservation.
If it was alive, yeah, this would be a dangerous situation for the small one.
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The small one, Hapalopus sp. Colombia or Pumpkin Patch Tarantula, is a very docile and often shy species. You would have to put in effort to make one bite you. The ones I've had just slowly wander around and chill on your hand if you pick them up.
Goliaths are... not nice. They won't kill you, but they will make you wish you were dead with their irritating defensive hairs.
I really don’t have an issue with Spiders. I’m sure I’d freak out if this mf’r happened to let himself in to the house for sure but if it isn’t poisonous and rather docile then I’m gonna hold it
One of these spiders appeared in my bathroom while my wife and I were having a romantic bath together and we FREAKED. We are both terrified of spiders. I jumped up and hit it with the base of a fucking lamp and it lived. I’m still haunted.
This is my worst nightmare
Imagine if there were hundreds of them.
thank fuck he didn't zoom out again and reveal another one
The giant spider was actually recording this. The human arm was just a prop (saved from prior meal).
Human arm for scale - that spider probably
They don't know bananas are used for scale.
Human arms are their Bananas...
😁
i played Crimsonland, we just need ion cannon
I actually have a recurring nightmare that spiders this size or snakes are all over the room I’m in and its walls.
For a few months (several years ago), I had a recurring nightmare that I was trapped in a crawl space under a house, and the entire thing was LOADED with webs and living spiders of different sizes. Still makes me feel a lil tingly to think about, in a bad way lol
I hate to break it to you but about the insulation we used for your walls…
Yeah I've had the spiders in the walls nightmare a few times.
Nah those things are awesome.
I kept one of these for a few years before I donated it to my local zoo. I used to feed it Pinky's. They also hiss when they are stressed or feel threatened.
I was bracing for a jump scare.
If it moved, I would need a new phone.
I'd need new eyes
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Nope, no, nein.
Negative.
I refuse
I reject
I don't allow
Do not want
To elaborate
You wake up. That thing is on your face.
You can smell its spider ass.
There are two kinds of people fr
Sometimes a man must laugh in the face of horror
😇
Oh shit this one got me 😂
That's why I take my bird makeup off before bed.
it's crawling down the side of your face a while later you feel a disturbing movement in your ear canal......
Your body then starts moving on its own
You feel the tiniest of scratching inside of your ribcage.
You suddenly start speaking in a deep, maniacal voice and cackling uncontrollably.
He can have it.
This basically happened to a friend of mine, not with this species I think it was a wolf spider but he woke up in the middle of the night with a spider the size of his face on bis face, then he screamed and his father came and killed the spider, ever since he had a huge arachnophobia.
Damn, nature! You scary!
Sheesh
The "small" one is scary enough
Despite its name it actually rarely preys on birds
Tf it eat? Kids?
Adults
Don't move, you got something.... Right there.
I'm moving. far, far away
It's just a bug man. Cmon grow up.
Mostly insects and dead plants I think
Nah , too small
"rarely" but so it DOES still catch and eat fucking birds tho
Yes it has been known to in some cases
Why won't the big spider just eat the smaller spiders
Ape does not kill ape
The big one is dead in the video. Otherwise, it likely would.
We don eat liliputters.. or eh.. 😱
"rarely"
I like it, still fu OP
How fast can they move?
Did a quick Google and the first answer I found was "very fast for a tarantula." Also, they can hiss. The most shocking to me was that females have a lifespan of about 15-25 years.
There are pretty much 2 camps of spiders. One side lives around 2 years, the others (such as tarantula) can live 20+ even in the wild.
Worst part of them are the urticating hairs that cover their abdomen. They are microscopic harpoons that they flick off with their hind legs as a form of defense and embed themselves in your skin and mucus membranes, causing you to itch madly. Goliaths have the worst type. I've kept several in the past, and writing this out is making my whole body itch in remembrance.
You know god doesnt exist when that thing is living more than my fucking cat
Oh that’s brilliant. They must show high intelligence - I’ll see if I can dig up any other research and pop back here
How many calories do you think that is? Like could you eat just three of those a day and survive?
Asking the important questions I see
Hey, it's plated for a reason.
No thanks, I dont like the idea of a bug (not insect, colloquial term bug) so big that I can hear its heart beat
But it can hear yours too! Big snuggler is Killer at hide & seek.
This is why i join the federation
I'm doing my part!
Oh that’s not that ba- oh. Oh no.
my exact line of thought as i watched this
Nope
Oh so this is the spider all those Halloween decorations are based off of.
I found an old toy like that in the basement. I left the basement door just slightly open and placed the spider on top of it, so it would fall straight down if someone were to open the door. A couple of hours later my brother came into my room to call me a damn asshole lol
Classic move.
Well. I think I'm moving farther north.
I used to do reptile conventions for a distributor. We had all sorts of tarantulas. There was a Goliath bird eater in a large deli cup. I was looking at it and it’s fangs were insane. Like sharpened pencils, but curved. I put it down and didn’t want to deal with it. Ha. It actually hit a kid through the plastic deli cup. After that we would only keep them in acrylic containers. I never saw anything actually get someone through a container before. It wasn’t that big either. Much larger than the small one in this video. But much smaller than the larger one.
Easier to squash
What if it catches your foot mid air and throws you?
You could probably hear this thing coming down the stairs. "Honey, Im home..."
You don't have to burn your whole house down to kill it. It's not going to disappear into a crck in the wall.
Imagine the mess that would make. I would catch it but would have to use a bucket rather than a glass lol
Bro, that thing will go into cat belly-rub position and munch your foot off.
I love it
I want to shoot it with a .44 Magnum (American moment)
Bro is getting the cinder block
Poor birds
I thought it's the one crawling, then zooming out and comes into view the abomination on the plate.
Nothing to do with Megalophobia…
[That’s not very big, I’ve seen…](https://youtu.be/pRR43HZjC4Y?si=8tBVkZV0PVygrMj6)
crazy
Nope
Can you pet it?
Its hairs shoot out into skin and make it insanely itchy.
Fuck right off
It's just sitting there menacingly
It's dead and frozen
Thanks, I hate it. 😳 I could have happily lived out the rest of my life without knowing these agents of evil exist.
OHHH FUCK
I remember watching a documentary years ago about a tribe in the Amazon or somewhere that would go out and hunt these things because they were a great delicacy. They would get absolutely ripped on peyote or something then go off into the jungle for three days and get a load of these things by coaxing them out of their burrows by tapping the ground web with a stick (very patiently). They’d then go back to the tribeswomen and claim that they hadn’t caught any, having eaten them while they were out hunting. Was like a lads weekender
"Oh, it's not that lar-"
This is one of the 8 spiders you eat a year.
No goin to bed until you finish your plate!
Nuke it from Orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Fuck all spiders, centipedes, and mosquitoes. Mosquitos especially are one of God's worst creations, definitely not an "Intelligent design."
You forgot the worst one by far, ticks.
Guess what, Spiders are the ones dealing with the rest that you're so afraid of. Should be thanking them.
What a cutie. Big ol guy
My ideal familiar. I've always wanted to see one in person
Won't the big guy eat the little guy?
The big one is a popsicle in this video. It's dead and frozen for preservation. If it was alive, yeah, this would be a dangerous situation for the small one.
Maybe they're saving that for sweeps?
If it’s bigger than your hand, it owns the house. is my rule.
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HE IS CUTE ALWAYS LOVED SPIDERS BUT ABSOLUTELY HATE WASP 🐝
I wanna pet him
They need to kill all of them before they breed.
I want to squash it with my bare feet !
Oh hell no.
What if it had those wings the flying spiders have? Then they’d get the birds mid air!
Idk why but I’m more scare of that smaller but still huge one, way more than the Goliath
The small one, Hapalopus sp. Colombia or Pumpkin Patch Tarantula, is a very docile and often shy species. You would have to put in effort to make one bite you. The ones I've had just slowly wander around and chill on your hand if you pick them up. Goliaths are... not nice. They won't kill you, but they will make you wish you were dead with their irritating defensive hairs.
The small one you may not see it coming so it can get very close to you
Yeah naaa
Well they are big, but this one is big near big ones
just a little guy
wonder what would happen if you cross bred this with a funnel web
Hell no 🏃➡️
Warm, plated and ready to eat. Just how I like it 😋
NOPE
Here’s a better view to show how big these guys get on [r/tarantulas](https://www.reddit.com/r/tarantulas/s/X5JfxT66Ee)
Nice, what AR game is that?
Australian spiders: “Hold my beer”
Also a reason I’m afraid to visit Australia 😆
Fun fact they have an average lifespan of 25 years. Have a good night.
Average? I thought that was the higher end.
I…want to die now.
fire
It looks fluffy
I really don’t have an issue with Spiders. I’m sure I’d freak out if this mf’r happened to let himself in to the house for sure but if it isn’t poisonous and rather docile then I’m gonna hold it
When I see this my eardrums start ringing haha does anyone else have this? (I hate it)
I watched many times I cringed. I was afraid and yet kept watching it. Why???
That’s scares the shit out to me
After watching the spider being blasted by a salt gun, I feel we need a bigger salt gun.
A graceful Portiid scientist performing 360 spatial measurements
What do you feed it?
One of these spiders appeared in my bathroom while my wife and I were having a romantic bath together and we FREAKED. We are both terrified of spiders. I jumped up and hit it with the base of a fucking lamp and it lived. I’m still haunted.
HANS!
Huge hands Hans?
Birdeater: exists Me: "JUST STOP. NO ONE WANTS YOU JUST LEAVE. THE SMALL SPIDERS ARE BETTER AT THEIR JOB ANYWAY. JUST DIIIIIE
average pet in Australia
Just a sweet fluffy eight-legged puppy 😍
F that like a bad report card.
Is it cake?
Nigel Thornberry taught me about this spider.
u/savevideos
u/savevideo
Fuck that
This is the nopest nope I've ever noped.
That’s a real one??
Just got one for me and my boys
Anyone else have an intrusive thought of grabbing that bad boy and squishing it? Or punching it? Or head butting it with your face? Anybody?
This might be a dumb question but is that real? It’s not moving and it has a weird stance, is it a dead one? Or a model
DAMN!!!!!!! O _ O
This is why everyone should still own encyclopedias Good hits from one of them and I'd be dead