Lookin2Oz

My friend just emailed this to me

Subject: You don't see this very often in your backyard

Photos from a backyard in Atherton, 50 km out of Cairns

It is difficult to say from an email if these pictures are authentically from Australia – any comments?

I have seen some BIG spiders in Africa I chased a few out the house called Bird Eating Spiders but didn’t look like this fellow, they were more a hairy - brown spider.

Does anybody know what kind of bird this is?

kiwinow

Look in the Barbie section under Clucking Bell, giant spider etc. Looks like the same photo.

CaptainMerton

This was in a few of the papers over here in the Uk. They said it was an orb weaver and that it's web was one of the strongest spider webs on the planet and that a human walking through it would have to push to get through it however it did say the worst it could do to a human was the equivalent of a bee sting but apart from being painful it was harmless so said The Metro newspaper. I would suggest it could cause a heart attack if you walked into the web and got that thing on you.

Budgie

It's in the papers over here

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...013016,00.html

The bird is a chestnut breasted mannikin. We get orb spiders in our garden - totally harmless as they never leave their webs. The webs are pretty strong though when you walk into one by accident!

hitchcock71

these photos were on a thread a few weeks ago

here

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=567672

pixie135

OMG!!!!! I really didn't think there was spiders that BIG

ACE

You haven't seen my Chicken Eating Spider pics then

Paula_lou

OMG!!!!

Please tell me these arent actually real!!!!!!!!! Where on earth do these spiders live and how likely is it Im gonna bump into one in Butler, Perth????

Im actually really scared now, I didnt actually think that spiders came that big!!!!!!

emelems

I havent seen a spider bigger than a 50 pence piece so try not to worry!

now.. the snakes......... *trails off*

bigAPE

A very dead one...

Al

Lookin2Oz

Sorry,

didn't mean to scare you

I am sure that this is quite a rare situation and it was more my interest in nature to post this.

probably same as the whole shark thing in that they are probaly more scared of humans, some of the humans I see is reason to be less scared of spiders or sharks

I remember as a kid walking in the hills in Scotland seeing warinig signs for Puff Addrers, quite a dangerus snake

river gipsy

I have lived in Scotland all my life and walked and camped all over,never have i seen an adder snake although been told they are here,but that spider is something else,big spiders in Oban but not as big as that one.

JAMMIE DODGER

Butler is actually where the government release all the rare spiders they have bread in captivity..................:rofl :

Dont worry I have been in joondalup (10K south of Butler) and i havent seen anythin like this.............but you do get alot of cocroaches

hantorro

Yep, was at a bbq in Kalaroo and boy the cockroaches were massive....and they fly...OMG, not sure what is worse!

Paula_lou

thanks for that love