• Talos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s just a huntsman spider. Extremely common and totally harmless to humans. They can run really fast though, and the way they move can look a bit freaky.

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    1 year ago

    This isn’t particularly unusual. Huntsmans are pretty friendly and quite a lot of people happily co-habit with them. I’ve known a couple of people who had friendly huntsmans in their cars for instance. I didn’t like the time one of them dropped in my lap while we were driving though.

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      1 year ago

      Dude I would not be alive to make a Lemmy comment if one of those things dropped into my lap mid-drive…but that’s just me and my phobias lol.

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    1 year ago

    This is the strange thing about Australia. If I ever went there I wouldn’t be at all concerned about meeting a black widow or those ones with the red stripe on their backs. In fact, if be interested. Respectful and careful, but interested.

    If I meet one of these, however, if run screaming. And if I encountered that nest is have to burn the house down!

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      1 year ago

      And yet the black widow is pretty dangerous and this is harmless… I guess the size is enough, no need for any venom