Associate Professor of Entomology at Lincoln University Cor Vink said he had been told of two sightings of the Huntsman spider - nine months apart - in the Pandora suburb of Napier. Huntsman ...

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The Goliath birdeater from South America earns the title of the world's biggest spider. The spider typically weighs around 6 ounces and measures 11 inches long.

Giant huntsman spiders are the largest member of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae with a leg span stretching up to 12 inches across — roughly the size of a dinner plate.

How to get rid of huntsman spiders IN SOME parts of Queensland they grow as big as a dinner plate, but if you want to get rid of your huntsman spider problem there’s only one sure-fire solution.

Dani Zenith, a teaching assistant at the school in Croydon, said staff screamed when the huntsman spider leapt out of the banana box.

A huntsman spider the "same size as a hand" was found in boxes shipped to the UK from China. The spider gave a warehouse worker in Oldham the fright of her life when she discovered it among goods ...

The fast, venomous spider can deliver a painful bite and reports of them arriving in the UK are increasingly common ...

The internet has been terrified by a woman's shocking discovery in her car—a giant spider. TikToker Chelsea Murray, under the handle @chelsmurray, shared a video of the moment she found the huge ...