Often breeding anxiety in homeowners due to its size and sometimes mistaken identity is the giant house spider, Eratigena ...

The females of this rare species can live for over 20 years in the wild and grow up to 5cm long - large in trapdoor spider terms ... with only a single female submitted to the Queensland Museum ...

A giant spider ... they're old enough to hunt out a female, they don't have much time left in the world. "It's also the ...