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 09/07/2005 07:18:54 AM · #26
Originally posted by eschelar:
Hey rich. How big was that spider? It looks a lot like a spider we have in a lot of places around here in Taiwan. Ours is about the size of a fairly large hand extended all the way. Some friends and I went for a walk and found a nifty little temple up on some hillock and there was a whole bunch of these guys. One strand of the web was knocked by my head, but did not break, it just slid up and over my forehead and hair and down my back. Stronger than steel? Hell yeah. Big spiders.

Sometimes they like to get in houses in rural areas and I have heard they are fairly poisonous, probably more because of the quantity of the venom rather than the strength though would be my guess. They aren't aggressive though.

The biggest spider we have in these parts is too hard to take pictures of. It is nocturnal and likes to make REALLY big webs in the tops of trees in the mountains. I have seen webs that have spanned 20 or 30 feet. I have a pic of a smaller one here: //pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/eschelar/detail?.dir=7696&.dnm=6f85.jpg&.src=ph.

That spider may not have been the same kind as another biggie I saw once in the mountains on a day I didn't have my camera with me. It was about as big around as a dinner plate, maybe 20% bigger than my face. It had a bulbous abdoment in a dark irridescent green. I would say a pigeon would be on the extreme end of it's dinner menu given a one on one fight...


Not that big - maybe about the diameter of the top of a soda can, maybe a little less. I was hoping to see some larger spiders that day, but no dice :-)
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