Magnificent but scary.
I manage to keep them outside.. just like in the photo in prev post. They grow BIG.
THAT was what was on my car... in a post I made earlier. Huge long hairy legs..
Leave them alone.. they can get feisty.. their bite isn't lethal afaik.. just painful.. local swelling.. you know.. stuff you get over easy.
I had a beauty a couple of months ago.. I'd picked up a pile of fallen wood from my trees I had collected in one place.
Your average firewood-collecting look from the dark ages.. trudging down with the wood like a bundle in my arms.
But silly me, I had no long sleeves or protection.. I rarely see the critters.. they know me. But so, dumped the wood to be burned later and thought no more about. Next day had a significant swelling coming up on the forearm where the wood rested. It was hot, and you could see ... well it must have been a spider bite.. a big one.. it swelled and was hot for at least a week.. two red spots were visible , a considerable space apart.... it WAS a mystery to me until I remembered the bite. I was walking briskly and felt a hot sensation on that arm .. I clearly remember it.. I shook my arm a little, frowned, ignored it and continued on to dump the wood.
It is interesting,, it could have been some other type , but in any case I didn't see the spider, just the bite.
Not the first and likely not the last. Life in the Bush.
