lestatdark said:
manuel said:
lestatdark said:
That's a huntsman spider right? The Ashidaka-gumo are the largest spiders in all of Japan (they can go up to 10 cm's legspan if i'm correct).
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Correct on all counts.
I love living in Japan. But thoise huge ass spiders (they're so fast!!!) are one of the things I could live without. They give me the creeps.
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There's a couple species that live here in Portugal too, but they're relatively tiny in comparison (most don't even reach 2 cm) and they're considered benefitial because they're extremely good at pest control. Though if we had one that could reach 10 cm like that one in Japan, I bet people wouldn't want them nearby as well 
@Millenium - Only saw your post now, sorry . I used to love collecting all class of weird-ass animals and insects and bring them home, though most of the times I didn't even have to do it because a lot of them just ended up in our garden randomly. We even had an Anaconda living in an rather large Avocado tree we had for about 3 months. Living in Venezuela close to the amazon rainforest is all kinds of fun xD.
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Those big spiders are good at hunting cockroaches, so basically they have their purpose and they do nothing to humans, but... Bah, I hate them. >_<
