Biggest Fossil Spider Found

nationalgeographic ^ | April 20, 2011 | Janelle Weaver

[NWFLConservative]

Ours was a ruby-haired tarantula.....our daughters named her "Charlotte". I used to let her crawl on my arm all the time. Never once did she ever show any aggression. Now when we tossed crickets into her pen, that's when the real violence started!!! ☺

[RandallFlagg]

Your bottom picture is from The Giant Spider Invasion.

“PACKERS WON THE SUPER BOWL!! WOOOO!!!”
(/MST3K reference)

[JoeProBono]

[Sarajevo]

But those damn camel spiders gave me the willies!!!!

I had a camel spider as a pet in my clinic at Bagram Air Base.

They are real interesting creatures. The camel spider (or wind scorpion) occupies a niche all it's own.

[Sax]

We've got a ton of Huntsman Spiders here in FL. They get to be hand-sized, are lightning quick and can jump at least two feet up off the ground. (Much to the chagrin of my former 8yr old self, who had just moved from the upper midwest to FL.) I don't know anyone who's ever been bit by one - they normally use that speed of theirs to avoid you at all costs. (Except the time I startled one under the front porchlight as a kid. We were both jumping up and down in some crazy dance before we simultaneously split in opposite directions. That little bugger lived in a crack up by the corner of the ceiling of the front porch, but I usually only saw a leg or two sticking out. Dad said that was his buddy watching out for roaches and to leave him alone. great. I would've preferred some sort of aerosol and a lighter.

[Verbosus]

Well, it looks like I can strike Florida off my list of
potential places to retire to.

[Larry Lucido]

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Sax]

Unless you live far enough south in FL to have Cuban Tree Frogs - the largest tree frogs on the ground in N.America. They literally eat anything that they can fit in their mouths - literally. We had some for about 4 years living right by the front window. The last freeze did them in and now they're gone. They can only go so far north before weather gets them, and apparently we might be right on the line. The biologists say we should kill them on sight as an invasive species, but we like them.

[SunkenCiv]

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