Female huntsmans produce a flat ... We knew straight away that it wasn't your regular found-indoors giant house spider. 'Myself and another member of staff who is very into spiders – she ...

Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house spider ...

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 ...