She said it reacted badly when they tried to move.
Australian spider size of dinner plate.
In the video above doctoral candidate mike grundler describes the tarantula as about the size of a dinner plate and says that seeing the spider eating a mammal was very unexpected the footage of a spider carrying the opossum off begins at about the 11 second mark.
Average huntsman spiders are about an inch long with a leg span measured diagonally from the tip of one leg to the tip of the opposite leg of up to 5 inches.
The biggest spider i saw in australia it came from behind the drier in our laundry and gave me a huge fright was a female huntsman.
She was dinner plate sized but only tea set dinner plate not real ones i called her grizelda i just ignored her and after a few days she went back behind the drier and i never saw her again.
The giant huntsman spider however has a leg span of up to 12 inches 30 cm making it the largest spider by diameter.
But the giant huntsman spider or heteropoda maxima is the world s largest spider by diameter.
A viral photo taken by betty herself testifies to this after she rescued a huntsman spider the size of a dinner plate.
Australian woman laree clarke discovered the large arachnid lurking on her.
While the average huntsman spider is only about 1 inch long with a 5 inch leg span the largest one ever recorded had a leg span of around 12 inches roughly the size of a dinner plate.
The world s largest spider is the size of a dinner plate most spiders are only a few centimetres long but a few species have grown far far bigger share on facebook.
Laura and her partner could not access their barbecue as the huge huntsman spider was blocking the back door.
It is often described as being the size of a dinner plate.
Some people may have killed the huntsman but betty decided relocation was a better option.
Betty s posted it online and described the encounter.
It s as big as a dinner plate with a leg span of up to 1 foot.
A gigantic huntsman spider the size of a dinner saucepan or plate was spotted in an australian woman s living room.
A huge spider stopped a terrified couple leaving their home as it clung to a glass door.