Little Monsters - Part 37: Huntsman Spider!

mweich (66)in #photography • 7 years ago

That was a BIG spider!
The Huntsman spider in Japan has a leg span of about 100mm to 130mm, though the body is only 20mm-30mm long. The one I luckily spotted in my garden was still on the smaller side, probably 80mm to 100mm for its leg span.

The patterns on the spider are really quite beautiful, the black cicrles have a slight blueish tinge.
It is likely still behind that planter.
Despite being a large spider with extremely long legs, they are quite flat and able to get into very narrow spaces.

Huntsman spiders are nocturnal hunters and do not build webs but rather chase down their prey. Though it is a nocturnal hunter it has rather poor eyesight, instead it relies on vibration to detect it's prey, and it's long legs to speedily chase it down. They primarilly dine on insects such as crickets and cockroaches.
Godspeed (not so) little monster!

Sources for facts and other information: Wikipedia

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7 years ago in #photography by mweich (66)

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sykochica (70) 7 years ago

Wow! Great shots!
You somehow make it look cute :D

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

That's because it is cute! :P

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mushroomseeds (40) 7 years ago

gosh that is a beautiful spider! Lovely photos.

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

They really are, too bad they're only active in the dark!

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eoincurran (55) 7 years ago

Great post, It's cool that you have created a series and added them to the post :)

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

Thank you very much!
I've listed the series so people can appreciate more than the current post. I think I'll need to make the list more compact though; it's getting kind of long!

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eoincurran (55) 7 years ago

Yes I can see you have just given up on the roman numerals, thats when you know its getting long! haha

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chrisx (54) 7 years ago

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
do me a favor and don't show my creepy things from Thailand
i live there ^^ and if you have done it already... don't show me that post haha
however somehow i cant resist to upvote ^^

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

But...I haven't been to Thailand...yet. :)
Thanks for your support!

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chrisx (54) 7 years ago

hahahaha
puhhhh we have creepy stuff over here
so whenever you consider to come along
give me a call :-)
being in Thailand for over 10 years now

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

Cool, I hear sometimes the creepy stuff gets eaten. :)

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chrisx (54) 7 years ago

hahahahah yes all of it
they claim its delicious
but i'm not ready to believe them haha
i will take some pics of the near by fish market the next days...
need to prepare myself with a gas mask

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

Haha I look forward to it, and have followed you so hopefully it comes up in the feed. Try one!
I've had some weird things in Japan, and some of them were good.

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chrisx (54) 7 years ago

don't worry i let you know hihi :-)
i'm around everyday ^^

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dek (62) 7 years ago

Ugh... scary and beautiful :)

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mweich (66) 7 years ago

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urs (56) 7 years ago

great article...i can remember once in the outback of Australia where we worked,a mate of mine opened a cable pit-lid......then a huntsman was chasing him for about 5-10m...our whole team laughed.....the other guy didn't think it was funny.....lol....never forget that.....

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