Look what I found waiting for me at my front door when I took the bins out tonight!
This Huntsman spider was about a foot and a half up the wall, so I lay down on the concrete under it and pushed the lens right up under it's nose for a personal greeting. Beautiful creature! Not the biggest specimen around here, only about 8cm across this one.
Optometrists would be king if spiders ever needed glasses.
Looks like 6 sets of eyes peering out of black portholes.
GREAT close up ... looking straight into the 4th eye from the left .. second row
Thanks Dave, Jeff, Patrick and Ric. I don't mind getting that close really. I recently braved picking one up with my bare hands off our ceiling the other night only to have it leap off said ceiling and jump onto my face. I calmly walked outside to try to find it without hurting it and brush it off into the garden. Not so long ago I would have freaked, but I have come to understand, appreciate and love these critters so much now, that I know they are not going to bite. In fact, I think perhaps they can sense it in me. Who knows?
