I had a much bigger one here loose for a while - I called him 'Fluffy' and he was a sweet heart - friendly, relaxed and happy to hang out on the wall.. Red Backs, and white tails (small) get dispatched, but Australians generally see this big baby as harmless and worth putting back outside to safety. They chase cockroaches very well. Just the size scares some people.
it's surprisingly comforting to see someone who loves these creepy crawlies so much still be absolutely freaked out by them sometimes dfgsdfh like, yea I don't wanna squish spiders in my home, but a wolf spider is still really big and really scary to catch and release 😭
I love how slowly she turned around when you poked her like "I BEG your pardon" X-D Morgan le Fay, maybe? Because she's beautiful, powerful, self-possessed, and hard to read.
Good part about keeping huntsman spiders: they don't bite for basically any reason you might give them. Bad part about keeping huntsman spiders: their reaction time is much much shorter than yours lol
I was bit by a huge huntsman in my sleep, in had the 2 piercing fangmarks on my hand about 1/2" apart and I had seen the huntsman in my room earlier that night.
@@memento81 also, I didn't think I would have this huge bite with 2 fang punctures on my hand the next morning. ,,probably won't sleep in a room with one again. I didn't think it would bite me.
That is one really chill huntsman. My Holconia immanis would have been on the other side of the room the second the lid was opened on that tub. They are gorgeous spiders but total nightmares to work with.
The Sydney huntsman is a god damn piston on legs! Prey no chance, It gets spooked and wanna catch it? No chance lol. I love then tho! They are very welcome around my house to eat the nasty bugs, And I don't need to keep any as pets.. I have lodgers 😄
"I really like her but I'm also like really afraid of her so...Cool!" 😂 You are just the best! Convinced me to keep arachnids and appreciate them for the wonder that they are!
Okay, you are the first spider keeper I've ever seen admit to being wigged out by any spider, and for some reason that makes me feel good. I'm an arachnophobe making a determined effort to desensitize myself, and the wolf spiders and huntsman are all terrifying to me. Where I live, we have a ton of L. mactans and a few L. variolus, and I'm actually tempted to pop a mactans into an enclosure and try keeping her. Honestly the most daunting part about that to me is the fruit flies/crickets, so I seem to be making some good progress with the phobia. Jumpers don't scare me at all now, but we have sac spiders and brown recluse (and a ton of lookalikes) too and I am so freaked out by them. I really, really appreciate spider afficionados sharing their experiences on TH-cam, thank you so much for this.
That's really impressive, I used to have a very annoying fear of spiders but overtime through what your doing my fear has gotten a lot better and I can tell you from experience, learning to manage arachnophobia is VERY worth it.
Wait till it’s grown and is bigger than a bird eating spider! Have you seen photos from Australia and see how huge they get?!? That enclosure is way too small for that one.
She’s beautiful! I live in Australia and huntsmans are super common. In summer, I have to shake out my towels before using them because they love the humidity of a bathroom. The females are usually pretty chill; as a rule of thumb, I find that the bigger they are the less scary as they don’t move quite as fast as the smaller males (easier to pick up and put outside). Thanks for sharing 😊
I also live in Australia, and I wish I was as brave as you. I'm usually not freaked out by spiders at all, but the way huntsmans move just gives me the heebie jeebies. I'd legit let a tarantula walk on my face, but hunstmans are a no no.
Name the Huntsman, Mortisha. Lol There's nothing funnier than watching a spider enthusiast freak out trying to get the spiders in their enclosures! Tfs!
I can’t believe Frank did that to you 🤣 Welcome to the world of giant huntsmen, Kat! I’m here if you need help. Also, I’ll happily take the babies if you get a sac or three (huntsmen can triple clutch- my last breeding did). 💜🕷️
that's not a giant huntsman...come down to Australia ;-) I got 1 somewhere in my room (wild) just hanging around probably 1.5x time the beauty in this video.
Aussie here and have experienced many encounters with huntsman's. When I was a week away from giving birth to our first child, we had a massive one living in our house. My partner loved it and called it out pet and as it was hanging in our kitchen I was okay with leaving it be. One morning I was chopping up some meat to give to my dogs and it legit flew out of no where and went crazy doing circles around the meat I had just been cutting up. I literally felt my baby startle in my tummy as I screamed and jumped back. Never seen one act like that before or since. It was unreal how crazy and fast it was going, even my partner was shocked and he's a tree lopper who encounters and moves them frequently. Well done with this one, you did so good getting it into its new enclosure 👏🥰
Sounds like it was doing the same thing my cats do when they know there is food coming 😂 but then the spider version of running around your legs hahaha
@gfdereus8967 😂 haha it was as persistent as a cat too! My partner was outside when he heard my scream and came running. It was probably circling that meat like a madman for 2-3 minutes 😂
"YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO THE OTHER WAY, NOT POKE BACK!" absolutely sent me lmao -- you're braver than me, that first pounce made me jump. absolute beauty though!
Merry Christmas Kat and to your family. As far as ab goes . It's not for the faint for sure. I'm a long time member there . I'm sure you deal with drama all over the net. Keep up your work, obviously tons of people dig it. That's why I'm here. Thank you.
I love these spiders so much😍I'm happy that your getting out of your comfort zone and enjoying these new babies that are going to the best home ever 😊 love your work
I love watching spiders on youtube. I know not everyone does the best job on this platform, but I went over to that board you mentioned to look through it and holy shit they are assholes.
Neat spiders! Whenever I rehouse and the temp container is too big, I use a box/tote as a playground for potential escapees. This came in handy with my OBT sling that was bolty af! 😅
I live in Australia, and one day at work, I looked down as one was crawling up onto my neck from my chest, I also had one crawl up onto my hat while driving. They get so big and fast that they run up the legs of any fool who tries to step on them. They get so much bigger!.
We have lots of huntsmen spiders here in Australia, now that i have tarantulas and became used to big spiders i just et them run around the house, luv your videos by the way
@@keithhughes4268 I would imagine that if you let your tarantulas roam around the house free that would be dangerous, for them mostly, but still dangerous.
Has to be the most laidback huntsman in the world, was waiting for it to become a blur of legs and appear on the top of a wall or disappear into the furniture in under one second😂😂 have them in and around the house here in Aus and luv them they become more chill as they age and get to know you
I love huntsmans. I have them here (country Australia). They are the most non aggressive spider there is. They get much bigger than the one here and can be moved outside from the walls on your hand without drama. They have great manners and just stay on the wall and sleep behind pictures on the wall through the day. I put them outside because they get thirsty. They are social and wouldn't bite you unless you really went to some trouble to annoy them. They will actually get used to you and be quite friendly. Anyone that thinks they are dangerous is just being stupid. They are the last spider you need to fear.
Huge fangs and definitely can be aggressive. They have a reputation for being huggy and bitey if handled. The females are notorious for being very aggressive around a nest with young. They also have scary habit of jumping and almost gliding to lower surfaces if bothered. Unfortunately Doom and such like sprays don't work on them as they have lungs which negates the action of pyrethrins. I'd rather not kill spiders, but if I'm having trouble removing them I will. They are called rain spiders where I live as they tend to come indoors in rainy weather, sometimes into cars as well which can lead to some harrowing driving experiences. Nothing like a big spider appearing on your dash.
@@nerdyali4154 would have to be a different species. They can bite but basically we have zero bites per year reported and I've never met anyone who even knows of someone being bitten. Any spray residue in the house can make them sick so I usually just scoop em up and put them outside. Red backs and White tailed spiders and funnel webs I do kill and have copped bites but Huntsmans just mind their own business.
Had huge huntsman spiders in Australia where I grew up, leg span of around 5-6 inches; I still haven't recovered from the time I woke up with one on the wall a few feet from my face.. I actually jumped out of bed backwards without standing up, landing directly on the floor in a sideways plank position. Good times xD
I have a name for the girl wolf spider which is SnowDrop known as a snow flower :>❤ hopefully you’ll like it! They are really pretty flowers and they emerge from the snow Male wolf spider- Frost? Huntsman - Elodie ❤️
My adult hogna does some weird food stuff too. Hes a little killer! he will bite the crickets and then run to the highest point in the cage and just relax while the cricket dies there. Seems to happen in winter months when things are cooled off. At that point, hes done with the cricket. He doesnt eat it when he does this.
🥹🥹🥹 The Hogna Lenta’s are absolutely gorgeous!!! I love love love! Awwwww! The Huntsman is so adorable!! Hugging cute adorable! I love her too! I am so shocked that you find her scary considering what you’ve experienced. I think her name should be Aurora! Which is the name that popped in my head! They are all amazing! Lucky you!!! 🖤😻🖤🫶🏼🖤🕷️🖤🕷️🖤🕷️🖤
This is random kind of, but about a month ago I came across a huge black widow in my room which happens to be my home's basement. She was walking around on my basement floor and for some reason I didn't instinctively smash her. Rather instead I googled why a black widow would randomly walk around on the floor rather than hide in a dark corner like I assumed they did. And the 2 things that popped up during my search was 1 - "They are probably dying" and 2 "Rain may of flooded her home" which made sense since my basement has flooding issues and all the water tends to run into the space under my basement stairs. While I was googling she was still just wondering around my floor, so for the first time in my life I decided to catch her. My intention was to catch her and put her outside but currently it is freezing cold outside and rainy, so I kept her. I looked up how to care for a black widow and that's how I came across your channel; since discovering your channel I have caught 2 more spiders as pets. They no longer scare me. Recently I caught another black widow who I named Cupcake and a wolf spider who I named Velvet because she is very large and genuinely looks like she is covered in crushed brown velvet. The original black widow I caught I took inspiration from your channel and named her Peaches. So thank you for doing what you do. Never did I ever think I would willingly catch spiders and take care of them, but here I am now with 3 and I am so obsessed with them.
I am a Floridian and Huntsmen are my favorite genera of spiders. Huntsmen are generally more or less venomous depending on what they eat in their habitat. If they are a prolific frog-eater species or generally focusing on chordates as prey items, their venom tends to be more "medically significant." That's a hard thing to define, though. I've never heard of someone dying from a huntsmen bite, but I do know people who had boatloads of pain from their bite, even temporary localized paralysis of an arm. It's not "medically significant" as much as it is probably one of the most painful things to happen to you in your life. Other arboreal spiders closely related to them are known to have some pretty unique venom cocktails that so some scary things as well. Again, I've never known anyone to die from one of these. They are highly effective at taking down things people don't think to feed spiders, though. Despite those fangs, they don't often do hard-bodied prey like lantern roaches or beetles. I recommend soft-bodied prey, Kat. Those silkworms, hornworms, and occasionally pinkies might interest her. In the wild, they do eat tiny lizards and frogs and one of the thousand varieties of katydids. The larger huntsmen species are known to even eat birds that are much bigger than them. Huntsmen don't have the greatest vision, like your wolf spiders have great vision. They are extremely sensitive to tactile vibrations. I would put this spider someplace without much "white noise" or noise pollution in your house, nowhere near the air conditioner or heat exchange vents. If they can't hunt by vibration, they won't eat. You'll get them to bite prey defensively, but they will just leave it there if they didn't know it was food first. This is a spider I'd put in a much larger vertical arboreal setup than you'd think to use. One with front-facing doors. I won't name brands. If your spider makes a web, it's an egg sac web. They are really good at hiding their sacs under bark and such, but the web is kind of like... a prepared space to weave the sac. Females generally die after hatching a clutch, though. Sorry. If she's gravid, you'll probably have her for a month or less after she clutches. Good news, though, their young are slightly more hardy than most slings and you'll probably get quite a few keepers out of it. I think you have the skills to make her a success for you. You might even fall in love with them.
As an Australian I'm happy to see the sparassidae genus 😊 They're not generally medically significant so unless you have issues you should be ok but there's always the exception. I'm laughing at your reaction, I'm sorry 😂 I used to catch them with my hands:D
I've been unable to get past my fear of spiders, though I did manage to with snakes, and we have two carpet pythons now, but I still laughed when I saw the title and thumbnail. Thought, 'Is that a ... huntsman.. lol YEP!' Between the size and the speed and the BOOM I JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS HERE!, they are indeed terrifying.
How about Frostbite for the new cutie replacing Snowball? Or maybe Frostbite is better for the scary lady that wants to bite instead of go into her enclosure?
I love having huntsmans around my house. They keep the venomous spiders at bay. Australia has some wicked spiders. The female that live in our house has the leg span of a side plate, she's huge but we also don't have redbacks. As for the venomous thing I'm not sure if its because we have more worrisome venomous spiders here but I've never heard of by incidents with a huntsman
I just got my first tarantula sling 2 weeks ago had a pet huntsman for 2 years it was the biggest one I have ever seen I found it in my house I usually just put them outside this one was really friendly usually they try to bolt or give you a threatening pose but this one just gradually crawled into the container so I kept it as a pet. I use to grab it out of its tank all the time never once tryed to bite me or give me a threatening pose . It passed away about 6 years rip big boy
Please read this: In grade 4 I was obsessed with spiders (still am) and we were on a bathroom break. I walked into the bathroom and all my friends were telling me there was a huge spider in the bathroom. I still am not sure if it was a brown recluse or a huntsman. so I did what came natural to me. I picked it up. Keep in mind, this spider was half as big as my hand. I walked out and it jumped off. A teacher was freaking out about it and smashed him. His spirit still lives in those halls.
Hi Kat, Looking for some recommendations. I have some Giant burrowing cockroaches. They spend most of the day in their burrow. I want to set a camera on the outside of their tank to look into their burrow. The camera needs to do macro as the focal point will be short and it will need to be night vision. Do you have any experience with such a camera and can recommend a model?
10:15 Why are you so afraid? You have spiders that are much faster and more dangerous. 🤣😂 I love your collection of spiders. If I weren't from Germany, I would love to get to know you and see your collection.
Huntsman spider, aka the banana spider since being transplanted around the world in bunches of bananas has made them quite cosmopolitan. They’re scary looking but their bite may give you a headache and a touch of nausea but not fatal unless you’re allergic to it. The bite is no where near as bad as your black widow’s is.
Super honest question (I’m very very new to spiders!): Should the enclosure be taller and/or bigger? I’m curious because I thought that arboreal species would need much more space but if not then that’s actually really interesting! Thank you for teaching me that spiders can be cute. 😊
I caught a GIANT female Tigrosa Georgicola in my hallway a month or 2 ago and kept her and lemme tell you she is amazing. I love her so much. And she has an INCREDIBLE feeding response and eats a lot
lol That huntsman isn't huge. My sister once had one the size of a small dinner plate (when he was flattened). And that can scare the dickens out of you when they land on your head if you scare them and they are above a doorway! (Australia)
About a month ago I caught a "Hogna carolinensis" black wolf spider at my job, I hope she is Female, they are supposed to live a few years. She is so far doing well, it has molted once and eats great! Her name is "Skeeyee" because that is the song my staff was singing all day, and I let them name her xD. I also love your new spider and am also afraid of her, but kinda want one. 💜
If that bad lady drops a sack, I'd gladly take one or two. Most of my huntsman are old enough that they're on their way out soon. I also have a few hierodula membranacea if that peaks your interest at all. They're leftover from my last oothe and I'm just either giving some to people I like, or going to raise them myself but I already have so many other mantids haha.
Could you do a video on why they need to be in separate enclosures or tell us which types can cohabitate? Maybe you have but I missed it. Surprised the jumping spiders dont mingle!
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Huntsmans are all kind of friendly. They're also really not medically significant. You'd be fine just picking it up and putting it in the enclosure, they are super reluctant to bite. I do worry that enclosure is too small for a spider that big and fond of climbing.
So much stress for nothing for the Barylestis lol. You just had to remove the bark first, then it would have been easier to put the spider inside the enclosure. Then, after the spider is in the enclosure, you reintroduced the bark….
You have the BEST homes for spiders. I'm starting to love Wolf spiders. They have the same forward facing eyes like jumping spiders... I've watched a few videos and yah... they are pretty cool.
How ist that with spiders orbweavers(?) i think its called xD they make these big nets can you keep spiders like that? Because i can imagine its not that easy when they need space to build there net.
Since she's huge, and a Huntsman, I think Artemis would suit her!
That's so perfect!!
PERFECT BRO- OMGG YES
Artemis was a male🤡
I had a much bigger one here loose for a while - I called him 'Fluffy' and he was a sweet heart - friendly, relaxed and happy to hang out on the wall.. Red Backs, and white tails (small) get dispatched, but Australians generally see this big baby as harmless and worth putting back outside to safety. They chase cockroaches very well. Just the size scares some people.
The wolfies could be named BLANCA and BLANCO (since those mean "white" in Spanish). Which is in line with the snow theme.
"I asked him not to send me anything scary 😅".
I can think of no better way to guarantee that will happen 😂
it's surprisingly comforting to see someone who loves these creepy crawlies so much still be absolutely freaked out by them sometimes dfgsdfh
like, yea I don't wanna squish spiders in my home, but a wolf spider is still really big and really scary to catch and release 😭
I love how slowly she turned around when you poked her like "I BEG your pardon" X-D
Morgan le Fay, maybe? Because she's beautiful, powerful, self-possessed, and hard to read.
Good part about keeping huntsman spiders: they don't bite for basically any reason you might give them.
Bad part about keeping huntsman spiders: their reaction time is much much shorter than yours lol
I was bit by a huge huntsman in my sleep, in had the 2 piercing fangmarks on my hand about 1/2" apart and I had seen the huntsman in my room earlier that night.
There's an amusing video on TH-cam of a guy dangling his finger in front of a huntsman and the spider lunges forward and chomps him
@@realtruenorth this story does not compute for me. How were you asleep after you saw a huge huntsman in your room?
@@memento81 because I tried to catch it and it was so fast. I couldn't, so, it was still in my room.
@@memento81 also, I didn't think I would have this huge bite with 2 fang punctures on my hand the next morning. ,,probably won't sleep in a room with one again. I didn't think it would bite me.
Its moments like when you were rehousing the huntsman where I really feel like rehousing some inverts can be like defusing a bomb.
Good analogy!!!
That is one really chill huntsman. My Holconia immanis would have been on the other side of the room the second the lid was opened on that tub. They are gorgeous spiders but total nightmares to work with.
The Sydney huntsman is a god damn piston on legs! Prey no chance, It gets spooked and wanna catch it? No chance lol. I love then tho! They are very welcome around my house to eat the nasty bugs, And I don't need to keep any as pets.. I have lodgers 😄
"I really like her but I'm also like really afraid of her so...Cool!" 😂 You are just the best! Convinced me to keep arachnids and appreciate them for the wonder that they are!
Kat I used to have an external fear of spiders ( I still kinda do) but watching your videos overtime has helped me feel less afraid.
Same here greetings from Germany. Now im kinda interessted in them.
Okay, you are the first spider keeper I've ever seen admit to being wigged out by any spider, and for some reason that makes me feel good. I'm an arachnophobe making a determined effort to desensitize myself, and the wolf spiders and huntsman are all terrifying to me. Where I live, we have a ton of L. mactans and a few L. variolus, and I'm actually tempted to pop a mactans into an enclosure and try keeping her. Honestly the most daunting part about that to me is the fruit flies/crickets, so I seem to be making some good progress with the phobia. Jumpers don't scare me at all now, but we have sac spiders and brown recluse (and a ton of lookalikes) too and I am so freaked out by them. I really, really appreciate spider afficionados sharing their experiences on TH-cam, thank you so much for this.
That's really impressive, I used to have a very annoying fear of spiders but overtime through what your doing my fear has gotten a lot better and I can tell you from experience, learning to manage arachnophobia is VERY worth it.
Wait till it’s grown and is bigger than a bird eating spider! Have you seen photos from Australia and see how huge they get?!?
That enclosure is way too small for that one.
She’s beautiful! I live in Australia and huntsmans are super common. In summer, I have to shake out my towels before using them because they love the humidity of a bathroom. The females are usually pretty chill; as a rule of thumb, I find that the bigger they are the less scary as they don’t move quite as fast as the smaller males (easier to pick up and put outside). Thanks for sharing 😊
I also live in Australia, and I wish I was as brave as you. I'm usually not freaked out by spiders at all, but the way huntsmans move just gives me the heebie jeebies. I'd legit let a tarantula walk on my face, but hunstmans are a no no.
Agree. They LOVE horse rugs! At least one huntsman in each one if you leave them on a fence to dry out during the day!
Gorgeous spiders! The huntsman 😍😍😍
3:30 - Love that little ring-shaped spot on her head. She's like a little puppy!
Name the Huntsman, Mortisha. Lol There's nothing funnier than watching a spider enthusiast freak out trying to get the spiders in their enclosures! Tfs!
You have definitely helped me with my spider fear, but any huntsman i will still be TERRIFIED of lol
Same!
I can’t believe Frank did that to you 🤣 Welcome to the world of giant huntsmen, Kat! I’m here if you need help. Also, I’ll happily take the babies if you get a sac or three (huntsmen can triple clutch- my last breeding did). 💜🕷️
I don't know about this species but some of the Australian species can drop 5 sacks atleast one of mine did.
that's not a giant huntsman...come down to Australia ;-) I got 1 somewhere in my room (wild) just hanging around probably 1.5x time the beauty in this video.
@@davepasternyour buggin fam.
I love that you, a spider lover, is still afraid of a huntsman. Love them, but also that kind of big Guy loose in your house !
Love the sentiment; being freak out about a big, fast, scary spider but also appreciating them is so cool. You are braver than me 😅
Aussie here and have experienced many encounters with huntsman's. When I was a week away from giving birth to our first child, we had a massive one living in our house. My partner loved it and called it out pet and as it was hanging in our kitchen I was okay with leaving it be. One morning I was chopping up some meat to give to my dogs and it legit flew out of no where and went crazy doing circles around the meat I had just been cutting up. I literally felt my baby startle in my tummy as I screamed and jumped back. Never seen one act like that before or since. It was unreal how crazy and fast it was going, even my partner was shocked and he's a tree lopper who encounters and moves them frequently. Well done with this one, you did so good getting it into its new enclosure 👏🥰
Sounds like it was doing the same thing my cats do when they know there is food coming 😂 but then the spider version of running around your legs hahaha
@gfdereus8967 😂 haha it was as persistent as a cat too! My partner was outside when he heard my scream and came running. It was probably circling that meat like a madman for 2-3 minutes 😂
"YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO THE OTHER WAY, NOT POKE BACK!" absolutely sent me lmao -- you're braver than me, that first pounce made me jump. absolute beauty though!
The baby wolf spiders are SO CUTE 💚💚💚💚
Angel babies🕷
Merry Christmas Kat and to your family. As far as ab goes . It's not for the faint for sure. I'm a long time member there . I'm sure you deal with drama all over the net. Keep up your work, obviously tons of people dig it. That's why I'm here. Thank you.
I love these spiders so much😍I'm happy that your getting out of your comfort zone and enjoying these new babies that are going to the best home ever 😊 love your work
I love watching spiders on youtube. I know not everyone does the best job on this platform, but I went over to that board you mentioned to look through it and holy shit they are assholes.
Neat spiders! Whenever I rehouse and the temp container is too big, I use a box/tote as a playground for potential escapees. This came in handy with my OBT sling that was bolty af! 😅
I live in Australia, and one day at work, I looked down as one was crawling up onto my neck from my chest, I also had one crawl up onto my hat while driving. They get so big and fast that they run up the legs of any fool who tries to step on them. They get so much bigger!.
We have lots of huntsmen spiders here in Australia, now that i have tarantulas and became used to big spiders i just et them run around the house, luv your videos by the way
The huntsmen spiders that is
@@keithhughes4268 I would imagine that if you let your tarantulas roam around the house free that would be dangerous, for them mostly, but still dangerous.
Has to be the most laidback huntsman in the world, was waiting for it to become a blur of legs and appear on the top of a wall or disappear into the furniture in under one second😂😂 have them in and around the house here in Aus and luv them they become more chill as they age and get to know you
Merry Christmas and happy holidays Tarantula Kat!
I do everything in my power to keep spiders out of my house and you order them in the mail... crazy!
They are so beautiful! Congratulations on the new baby. They will be safe and we’ll taken care of ❤
She looks like a Drucilla to me :P Your so brave Kat
I love huntsmans. I have them here (country Australia). They are the most non aggressive spider there is. They get much bigger than the one here and can be moved outside from the walls on your hand without drama. They have great manners and just stay on the wall and sleep behind pictures on the wall through the day. I put them outside because they get thirsty. They are social and wouldn't bite you unless you really went to some trouble to annoy them. They will actually get used to you and be quite friendly. Anyone that thinks they are dangerous is just being stupid. They are the last spider you need to fear.
Huge fangs and definitely can be aggressive. They have a reputation for being huggy and bitey if handled. The females are notorious for being very aggressive around a nest with young. They also have scary habit of jumping and almost gliding to lower surfaces if bothered. Unfortunately Doom and such like sprays don't work on them as they have lungs which negates the action of pyrethrins. I'd rather not kill spiders, but if I'm having trouble removing them I will. They are called rain spiders where I live as they tend to come indoors in rainy weather, sometimes into cars as well which can lead to some harrowing driving experiences. Nothing like a big spider appearing on your dash.
@@nerdyali4154 would have to be a different species. They can bite but basically we have zero bites per year reported and I've never met anyone who even knows of someone being bitten. Any spray residue in the house can make them sick so I usually just scoop em up and put them outside. Red backs and White tailed spiders and funnel webs I do kill and have copped bites but Huntsmans just mind their own business.
Haha - I woke up to a 10cm huntsman on my kitchen wall at 3am! Just another day in Australia 🇦🇺 ❤
Had huge huntsman spiders in Australia where I grew up, leg span of around 5-6 inches; I still haven't recovered from the time I woke up with one on the wall a few feet from my face.. I actually jumped out of bed backwards without standing up, landing directly on the floor in a sideways plank position. Good times xD
I have a name for the girl wolf spider which is SnowDrop known as a snow flower :>❤ hopefully you’ll like it! They are really pretty flowers and they emerge from the snow
Male wolf spider- Frost?
Huntsman - Elodie ❤️
My adult hogna does some weird food stuff too. Hes a little killer! he will bite the crickets and then run to the highest point in the cage and just relax while the cricket dies there. Seems to happen in winter months when things are cooled off. At that point, hes done with the cricket. He doesnt eat it when he does this.
🥹🥹🥹 The Hogna Lenta’s are absolutely gorgeous!!! I love love love! Awwwww! The Huntsman is so adorable!! Hugging cute adorable! I love her too! I am so shocked that you find her scary considering what you’ve experienced. I think her name should be Aurora! Which is the name that popped in my head! They are all amazing! Lucky you!!! 🖤😻🖤🫶🏼🖤🕷️🖤🕷️🖤🕷️🖤
I'm glad you didn't have to chase her. Huntsmen...well, gallop. That's the best word I have for it. Great video!
Frosty for the Male ⛄️
Elsa for the Female ❄️
This is random kind of, but about a month ago I came across a huge black widow in my room which happens to be my home's basement. She was walking around on my basement floor and for some reason I didn't instinctively smash her. Rather instead I googled why a black widow would randomly walk around on the floor rather than hide in a dark corner like I assumed they did. And the 2 things that popped up during my search was 1 - "They are probably dying" and 2 "Rain may of flooded her home" which made sense since my basement has flooding issues and all the water tends to run into the space under my basement stairs. While I was googling she was still just wondering around my floor, so for the first time in my life I decided to catch her. My intention was to catch her and put her outside but currently it is freezing cold outside and rainy, so I kept her. I looked up how to care for a black widow and that's how I came across your channel; since discovering your channel I have caught 2 more spiders as pets. They no longer scare me. Recently I caught another black widow who I named Cupcake and a wolf spider who I named Velvet because she is very large and genuinely looks like she is covered in crushed brown velvet. The original black widow I caught I took inspiration from your channel and named her Peaches. So thank you for doing what you do. Never did I ever think I would willingly catch spiders and take care of them, but here I am now with 3 and I am so obsessed with them.
Huntsman = Artemis
You are a very brave soul to have all those spiders in your home!! Love the video!
I am a Floridian and Huntsmen are my favorite genera of spiders. Huntsmen are generally more or less venomous depending on what they eat in their habitat. If they are a prolific frog-eater species or generally focusing on chordates as prey items, their venom tends to be more "medically significant." That's a hard thing to define, though. I've never heard of someone dying from a huntsmen bite, but I do know people who had boatloads of pain from their bite, even temporary localized paralysis of an arm. It's not "medically significant" as much as it is probably one of the most painful things to happen to you in your life. Other arboreal spiders closely related to them are known to have some pretty unique venom cocktails that so some scary things as well. Again, I've never known anyone to die from one of these. They are highly effective at taking down things people don't think to feed spiders, though. Despite those fangs, they don't often do hard-bodied prey like lantern roaches or beetles. I recommend soft-bodied prey, Kat. Those silkworms, hornworms, and occasionally pinkies might interest her. In the wild, they do eat tiny lizards and frogs and one of the thousand varieties of katydids. The larger huntsmen species are known to even eat birds that are much bigger than them.
Huntsmen don't have the greatest vision, like your wolf spiders have great vision. They are extremely sensitive to tactile vibrations. I would put this spider someplace without much "white noise" or noise pollution in your house, nowhere near the air conditioner or heat exchange vents. If they can't hunt by vibration, they won't eat. You'll get them to bite prey defensively, but they will just leave it there if they didn't know it was food first. This is a spider I'd put in a much larger vertical arboreal setup than you'd think to use. One with front-facing doors. I won't name brands. If your spider makes a web, it's an egg sac web. They are really good at hiding their sacs under bark and such, but the web is kind of like... a prepared space to weave the sac. Females generally die after hatching a clutch, though. Sorry. If she's gravid, you'll probably have her for a month or less after she clutches. Good news, though, their young are slightly more hardy than most slings and you'll probably get quite a few keepers out of it. I think you have the skills to make her a success for you. You might even fall in love with them.
As an Australian I'm happy to see the sparassidae genus 😊
They're not generally medically significant so unless you have issues you should be ok but there's always the exception.
I'm laughing at your reaction, I'm sorry 😂 I used to catch them with my hands:D
I've been unable to get past my fear of spiders, though I did manage to with snakes, and we have two carpet pythons now, but I still laughed when I saw the title and thumbnail. Thought, 'Is that a ... huntsman.. lol YEP!' Between the size and the speed and the BOOM I JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS HERE!, they are indeed terrifying.
How about Frostbite for the new cutie replacing Snowball? Or maybe Frostbite is better for the scary lady that wants to bite instead of go into her enclosure?
Merry Christmas Spider Queen! ❤❤
That enclosure they shipped her in is where she would have stayed 😅 great video Kat
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, your family and friends and everyone here 🤶🎄🎅♥️🤗♥️🎅🎄🤶🕷🕸🕷🤶🎄🎅♥️🤗♥️🎅🎄🤶✨️👑✨️👑✨️
Name the two spiders BLIZZARD and FREEZE. Love your videos keep up the hard work.
I love having huntsmans around my house. They keep the venomous spiders at bay. Australia has some wicked spiders. The female that live in our house has the leg span of a side plate, she's huge but we also don't have redbacks. As for the venomous thing I'm not sure if its because we have more worrisome venomous spiders here but I've never heard of by incidents with a huntsman
just the way you said " *gasp* scary!" had me rolling lol
You know she's spooky when Tarantula Kat themselves is spooked.
Herself* themselves is plural. I’ll even take themself if you’re just being weird about pronouns
@@robertlucey6302 oh no I made a singular grammar mistake, sue me
I love that you still have a nice healthy fear of some of these spiders, and she was not happy with the paintbrush. 😂
I love your videos. I have learned so much that i am a long-time follower, you rock kat
Love the new babies! I like Winter, snowflake or frosty for names lol
Wolf spiders are so amazing. I love seeing them on and around my home. I hate seeing them die in the winter.
Totally love your TH-cam channel Kat
I love your spider enclosures.
I just got my first tarantula sling 2 weeks ago had a pet huntsman for 2 years it was the biggest one I have ever seen I found it in my house I usually just put them outside this one was really friendly usually they try to bolt or give you a threatening pose but this one just gradually crawled into the container so I kept it as a pet. I use to grab it out of its tank all the time never once tryed to bite me or give me a threatening pose . It passed away about 6 years rip big boy
Happy holidays tarantula kat family and community!!
i think for the boy wolf, Frost is a handsome/cute snowy name :D or for the girl too, it sounds both pretty and handsome tbh lol
Please read this: In grade 4 I was obsessed with spiders (still am) and we were on a bathroom break. I walked into the bathroom and all my friends were telling me there was a huge spider in the bathroom. I still am not sure if it was a brown recluse or a huntsman. so I did what came natural to me. I picked it up. Keep in mind, this spider was half as big as my hand. I walked out and it jumped off. A teacher was freaking out about it and smashed him. His spirit still lives in those halls.
A reallly REALLY big scary spider 😂💖
Awesome Video Tarantula Kat and I hope you are well Tarantula Kat 😊
Hi Kat, Looking for some recommendations. I have some Giant burrowing cockroaches. They spend most of the day in their burrow. I want to set a camera on the outside of their tank to look into their burrow. The camera needs to do macro as the focal point will be short and it will need to be night vision. Do you have any experience with such a camera and can recommend a model?
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Why are you so afraid? You have spiders that are much faster and more dangerous. 🤣😂
I love your collection of spiders. If I weren't from Germany, I would love to get to know you and see your collection.
Huntsman spider, aka the banana spider since being transplanted around the world in bunches of bananas has made them quite cosmopolitan. They’re scary looking but their bite may give you a headache and a touch of nausea but not fatal unless you’re allergic to it. The bite is no where near as bad as your black widow’s is.
Super honest question (I’m very very new to spiders!): Should the enclosure be taller and/or bigger? I’m curious because I thought that arboreal species would need much more space but if not then that’s actually really interesting! Thank you for teaching me that spiders can be cute. 😊
Yeah, I’d have put something together that’s bigger had I known it was coming but this will do for now
@@tarantulakat lol sorry, you totally said you weren’t expecting it at the beginning. Thanks!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's.
"Let's just hope for that" -The arboreal keeper mantra
Makes me feel a bit better about still being a bit spooked by spiders, but also really liking them and wanting one 😊
How about snow frost and snow flake? I think mega cute and fitting coming from NYC in Dec. Awesome video as usual x
Oh? Barylestis! I have B. scutatus. Very pretty! And shes pretty chill and only eats butterflies 😅
I caught a GIANT female Tigrosa Georgicola in my hallway a month or 2 ago and kept her and lemme tell you she is amazing. I love her so much. And she has an INCREDIBLE feeding response and eats a lot
lol That huntsman isn't huge. My sister once had one the size of a small dinner plate (when he was flattened). And that can scare the dickens out of you when they land on your head if you scare them and they are above a doorway!
(Australia)
About a month ago I caught a "Hogna carolinensis" black wolf spider at my job, I hope she is Female, they are supposed to live a few years. She is so far doing well, it has molted once and eats great! Her name is "Skeeyee" because that is the song my staff was singing all day, and I let them name her xD. I also love your new spider and am also afraid of her, but kinda want one. 💜
If that bad lady drops a sack, I'd gladly take one or two. Most of my huntsman are old enough that they're on their way out soon. I also have a few hierodula membranacea if that peaks your interest at all. They're leftover from my last oothe and I'm just either giving some to people I like, or going to raise them myself but I already have so many other mantids haha.
I live in Kansas, & there are Wolf spiders EVERYWHERE here; lots of folks think they are brown recluse. Thank god there are no huntsmen!!💀😊
Great review kat from England 😊
Could you do a video on why they need to be in separate enclosures or tell us which types can cohabitate? Maybe you have but I missed it. Surprised the jumping spiders dont mingle!
In Australia.. that is a baby huntsman lol
So that means the wolf spider that I saw on the ceiling last summer right before I left for my vacation is still here somewhere. Nice.
I like your terrarium, where do you get it? Thanks, cool video 🤟
Maybe u should do puffball and snowchu. And for the huntsman it should be Sprooly
Omg that spider is so so big it’s massive you handled it so well 😅
Phobos, Deimos, Dryas (sons of Ares).
Zagreus (son of Hades).
Valak.
Malthus (the black demon that inhabits the Annabelle doll).
Sabbac (demon from Black Adam).
Trigon (demon from Teen Titans).
10:08 Excuse you? Think you are doing lol. We leave the spiders alone...Great pest service
What huntsman is it I have a David Bowie and beware huntsman either eat or not mine hasn't eaten though yet and I've had for a good 5-8months
The Countess. Like Countess Elizabeth Bathory. She’s a beautiful specimen and GIANT!
Beautiful huntsman. I haven't kept them in over 30 years but maybe I'll start a new small collection again someday soon.
Huntsmans are all kind of friendly. They're also really not medically significant.
You'd be fine just picking it up and putting it in the enclosure, they are super reluctant to bite.
I do worry that enclosure is too small for a spider that big and fond of climbing.
You're gonna need a hamster wheel for that huntsman, they love to sprint, and the move like greased lightning!
Yeah they teleport, the babies probably fit through the small holes haha.
I did not need to know that 💀💀 omg I didn’t think they would be fast
for the snow related names maybe frost arctic tundra zero snowflake freeze winter chill chilly or flake?
Enjoyed your video Kat!
So much stress for nothing for the Barylestis lol.
You just had to remove the bark first, then it would have been easier to put the spider inside the enclosure. Then, after the spider is in the enclosure, you reintroduced the bark….
all i can think about is snow white and the huntsman 😂 maybe u should name one is the wolfs snow white 🥰
I was a bundle of nerves watching you rehouse it. 😰Glad it worked out well!!
You have the BEST homes for spiders. I'm starting to love Wolf spiders. They have the same forward facing eyes like jumping spiders... I've watched a few videos and yah... they are pretty cool.
How ist that with spiders orbweavers(?) i think its called xD they make these big nets can you keep spiders like that? Because i can imagine its not that easy when they need space to build there net.