On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:44:14 +1000, Bruce > wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:27:54 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:31:13 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:17:04 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 15:47:09 +0800, JBurns >
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:05:39 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> JBurns wrote:
>>>>>>> > We have Australian Huntsman spiders, about as big as my hand. We quite
>>>>>>> > often have one in the house.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Our spiders are about a quarter-inch across. If I saw a spider as
>>>>>>> big as my hand anywhere in the house, I'd use the shotgun on it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>LMAO! ME TOO! ARRRGGGH! ;-D
>>>>>
>>>>>They are a bit daunting, but if you are faced with them often enough
>>>>>you get desensitised. They are harmless critters that keep other
>>>>>insects down. They must also be territorial because the house never
>>>>>seems to have more than one at a time (visibly anyway), and maybe some
>>>>>babies.
>>>>
>>>>True, you never seem to see more than one really big one at a time.
>>>>We used to have some real whoppers up in Queensland, they're
>>>>relatively small here in Tas.
>>>
>>>The biggest one I've seen was in Tas. Bigger than any I've seen in
>>>NSW. Must have been a fluky specimen.
>>
>>You must have provided a warm and comfortable environment for them
>
>I guess so. It was a huntsman the size of my hand, at least that's how
>I remember it.

A word of caution if choosing to kill them.

I did kill one once, this Huntsman was just too big to ignore and was
highly mobile for a couple of days, you just couldn't relax with this
big guy around. I smacked him with a shoe... and the shoe actually
bounced off him... so I hit him even harder and that did the trick.
Only trouble was I now had a big mess on the wall of blue-green spider
guts everywhere... The big ones take a LOT to squash.