Is this spider real?

Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:58 pm by freighter fighter

Huge Spider

this is supposedly a bananna spider, surely anything this big would collapse under its own weight?

Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:09 pm by Neo_Kuja

I've seen bigger on my travels .... tarantulas.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:04 am by Griffon_26

them bird eating spiders in queensland are quite scary, biggest in the world I beleive? And funnel webs, poisonous too

Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:38 am by zlo

Nice spidy. Difficult to judge about the size tho. it could be good to put sth close to it for comparison, say, a human finger

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Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:14 am by Arania

That, is.... BIG...
The bigness...
Thats bigger than any australian spider ive ever seen..... although not nearly the deadliest, ive held the deadliest spider on earth im my hand:

The daddy long-legs

undisputed and scientifically proven to be the most deadly spider on earth, a human is immune because its fangs are too short to even scratch human skin

Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:43 am by DSQrn

there are bigger, camel spiders in the middle east. they are about twice the size of that... and i have a phobia of spiders...... ugh

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Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:23 am by Chips

The 'daddy long legs' is not a spider, its an insect - it has wings, it flies, and they said IF it could cross breed with spiders we would be in trouble if i remember rightly.

If they could cross breed a south american tree frog with a mosquito - then we would be in more trouble.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:29 am by gromit

@DSQ the "camel spider" thingy was revealed as a hoax well over a year ago. Google it, there are plenty of documented websites on the subject. Such as this one - which explains that the famous "camel spider in iraq" photograph is in fact a zoomed in photo of 2 spiders attached to each other, each no bigger than a child's hand.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:09 am by Indy11

Bird Eating Goliath Spider

Guiness' largest known spider.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:10 am by -------

I'm with DSQ on this one about the arachniphobia. I absolutely HATE spiders. Everything about them is creepy. The bigger they are, the creepier they get.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:31 am by Codename

Meh, I say the bigger they are the more fun it is to skweesh them.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:17 am by Fire Blizzard

You Like To Splat Spiders Codename It Mite Have A Wife And Some Children
You Know

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But Can She Do Her Own Stunts

Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:46 am by H.Q. Victor

Chips, you have to be thinking about that giant mosiquto. The grandad spider we have, is indeed a spider. It measures on the average, 3inchs across, leg tip to leg tip.

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Edited by - Finalday on 10/18/2004 9:49:25 AM

Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:56 am by Indy11

Interestingly, daddy-long-legs or "harvestmen" are NOT insects but also NOT
truly spiders.

Insects have three-segment bodies, true spiders have two-segment ones and
d-l-ls one.

Although a cousin of true spiders, being an arthropod, a d-l-l is in an order all its own, the phalangida. True spiders are in the order arachnida.

Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:01 am by ~Corsair#01~

I was gonna get a pet tarantuala, but I got a corn-snake instead.

(The tarantula was tiny)

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