PaulandNic

Can anyone confirm these are baby Huntsmen?

We noticed last night about a trillion of them on the ceiling. Ok, not quite a trillion, but bloody loads! In one rough square metre I counted 24 ...

Now the good bit is they're only this big:





When looking around earlier I see a Redback nest in a corner, along with 3 of these little things waiting to be eaten I guess.

I just hope it can eat and drink sewage water at the same time ...

Huntsmen anyone?

MarkMC

TiddlyP is the expert.

Give them a few days, if they are Huntsmen they will grow

PaulandNic

Ah ok I'll hope she see's this.

Funny thing is they all disappeared during the day, but as the night drew in they're back!

Not really a prob, altho I did jump a bit when I felt one on the back of my neck as I was drifting off last night. Nic reckons I dreampt it ...

homewardbound

my vote is yes for huntsman... but im no expert - they are cute huh! we have one baby here but he is about an inch big... very cute!

welovebonds

Well, the other other day my little boy said to me, 'wow that's a huge spider'...so I look up to where he is pointing to and I couldn't believe my eyes. This biggest spider I have ever seen out of the zoo.....so I run and get the spray and spray it, which doesn't seem to do any good. So it comes down onto the floor and onto a small toy box. I knock it off the box and then get the box and put it on top of it along with a couple of heavy books. So my oh comes home and he lifts the box and there is the biggest Huntsman, beautifully pressed. It's fangs were huge.....so not sure how it got in but now on the look out for more. Would put a pic up but we used the cam corder.

bigAPE

Yep, that's a baby Huntsman.

PaulandNic

So at least a few hundred running all over the place is a clear sign the place needs spraying me thinks.

Had a nest of Redbacks last year, now this lot, better get nipped in the bud as a heap of BIG Huntsmen wouldn't be much fun ...

Oh and thanks ...

homewardbound

Yes but the huntsmen are the guardsmen of the house and they keep the redbacks and whitetails at bay.

Better off catching them and putting them outside so they can clear ur perimeter if you dont want them in the house...

PaulandNic

Yeah I hear this, but to be honest we get heaps anyway. I often look out of the kitchen window which faces a retainer wall and see a beast on it ...

criodain

The one things that would put me off living there. Spiders.

moneypenny20

Excuse me? I've been to your place I am never, repeat never, coming round again. You slept with those things More than four legs and the spray comes out, don't care how useful they are

mr mover

God you lot are soft , no wonder you never win any thing............mm

Zambia

Yeap thats one

johnnyx0

I had a great big (7-8 inch across) huntsman living behind the headlight in my old van. It used to frighten the hell out of me every time it came to servicing the van...

Then one day while driving along he decided to come out of his hidey-hole and have a wander across the windscreen. I put the windscreen wipers on, and I must say, he put up a damn good struggle against the wiper. He nearly won! The wipers stopped for a few seconds as he bravely tried to push it back, the wiper motor made a nasty squealing sound, and then they pushed him off the screen. Gone - or so I thought. Until the day came to change the bulb in the headlight and there he was again!

I sold the van to a nice German couple who are off touring the NT, and giving spidey a nice holiday! I just hope they don't have to put their hand down behind the headlight.....

claretandblue