Huntsman the fastest spider on the planet

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jn1
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11 Jul 2026 8:39pm
And... that's not what I want to hear.

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/09/fastest-spider-on-the-planet-brown-huntsman


decrepit
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11 Jul 2026 9:54pm
Huntsman are scary but harmless
jn1
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12 Jul 2026 7:30pm
Tell my unconscious mind that. I think Rigley Scott's Alien was inspired by this insect.
elmo
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12 Jul 2026 7:24pm
They're bloody smart too, In my younger days we rented a 10acre property which had an abundance of the hairy legged buggers, our cats used to try and catch them, right until the spiders figured out that the cat couldn't get them if the hung off of the cats.
The cats weren't amused with the tables being turned. We were (but from a safe distance).

We would also try to shuffle them out of the house with a broom bravely wielded from the other end to the spider, the little bastards would launch themselves with a spinning motion up towards the source of their annoyance who would tend to bolt (in a manly fashion) away from the evil baskets.
jn1
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13 Jul 2026 10:53pm
A long time ago, a female motorcyclist told me a story about a Huntsman falling down in front of her face, in her helmet as she was riding along. She held it together enough to stop and not drop her bike. A very brave women.
decrepit
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14 Jul 2026 9:11am
If they aren't too big, you can drop an icecream container over them, slide a thin sheet of something under them and carry them outside, just be sure there's no gaps between container and sheet.
jn1
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14 Jul 2026 6:23pm
decrepit said..
If they aren't too big, you can drop an icecream container over them, slide a thin sheet of something under them and carry them outside, just be sure there's no gaps between container and sheet.



I can tell you my extraction method once. Another long time ago, when my 1st house settled 20 years ago, I jumped in the car at work to pick up my keys at the real estate agent. Driving off the site's road, a big Huntsman appeared on my radio. I haven't been living in Adelaide for very long, and didn't know what they were. I just saw Alien movie in my car. So I jumped out of the car as it was going along. The car was doing about 10km/h I think, and I was jogging along next to it. A runner stopped me and said to me something like "What the F are you doing mate ?". And I told him. He just Hummffed, and said let's look. The car rolled to a stop and conked out. So, he was there with a piece of cardboard trying to extract it from the front passenger foot well. He was dicking around for a minute or so, until I pushed him aside, and rammed my foot repeatedly into the foot well. He called me a f/head, and jogged off. But, crisis was averted. The end.
cammd
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14 Jul 2026 7:20pm
There was one on the ceiling of my sons bedroom, he couldnt go to sleep with it there. I thought to try and move it along with a stick, it ran across the ceiling at lighting speed until it was over me then launched it self. I got such a shock I reeled backwards and tripped over something and landed in my sons drum kit. My son nearly died laughing and the spider escaped.
Respect to that spider, he was bold enough to attack and escaped as a result.


Subsonic
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14 Jul 2026 5:21pm
jn1 said..


decrepit said..
If they aren't too big, you can drop an icecream container over them, slide a thin sheet of something under them and carry them outside, just be sure there's no gaps between container and sheet.





I can tell you my extraction method once. Another long time ago, when my 1st house settled 20 years ago, I jumped in the car at work to pick up my keys at the real estate agent. Driving off the site's road, a big Huntsman appeared on my radio. I haven't been living in Adelaide for very long, and didn't know what they were. I just saw Alien movie in my car. So I jumped out of the car as it was going along. The car was doing about 10km/h I think, and I was jogging along next to it. A runner stopped me and said to me something like "What the F are you doing mate ?". And I told him. He just Hummffed, and said let's look. The car rolled to a stop and conked out. So, he was there with a piece of cardboard trying to extract it from the front passenger foot well. He was dicking around for a minute or so, until I pushed him aside, and rammed my foot repeatedly into the foot well. He called me a f/head, and jogged off. But, crisis was averted. The end.



I would’ve just set fire to the car. Thats the safest way to deal with it.
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