A scream followed by a “holy shit“, this is what happened when my wife went off to bed last night and found this “beastie” parking off on my pillow…….
Oh, before someone asks, he was very aggressive (I think it wanted to kill me) but it did land up in the garden all safe and sound. It was at least 10cm long and hairy.
PS – African Rain spider =African Huntsman Spider = Part of the Sparassidae family…..
One of the many many perks of living in Africa I do fear.
Cheerz
If it didn’t bite you, it could probably carry you off. We have some big ones here, but nothing like that.
True, but their bite isn’t that bad… about as bad as a bee sting. (OK, that’s still pretty sore, but my point is that they aren’t lethal.)
And if that thing was on your pillow, then you’re living in the wrong (or maybe the right, depending on what you’re looking for) part of Cape Town!!
Yeah the spider survived, that I promise you all – I do not kill anything of such beauty.
Living in Tokai, so I guess the right part of Cape Town, pretty much bordering the Tokai Forest. Apart from spiders this summer I have already had a visit from a boomslang as well as a baby Cape Cobra. So in a nutshell I love where I live, it keeps me on my toes – lol…
Boomslang
Cape Cobra
I got the fright of my life as I live in a block of flats in Wynberg, Cape Town, off Rosmead Avenue, but the area is quite built up and I live, my flat is right at the top, so how on earth did a big spider – my neighbour says it’s a Tarantula, get into my tiny little flat? It looks similar to the picture of the rain spider, but it was black and hairy, the size of a hand when its legs were spread out, but after it died, the legs shrunk. It did not die easily, I used up about two half tins of insect fly spray before it eventually curled up and died. Not before putting up a fight, but I drenched it in fly spray. I was sick for the whole day today, I still am (of the shock). What if I had been asleep and it had bit me then, without me knowing, or seeing it?
I gote 2 rain spoder in a bottel with a crickit but I think the crickit going to eat the spider? so can you gays help me?????25.cm high and diametre of 20 cm?
we are planing to add a few fire ants,will that complete the food chain?