Often breeding anxiety in homeowners due to its size and sometimes mistaken identity is the giant house spider, Eratigena ...
The creature was a Heteropoda venatoria, a member of the huntsman or Sparassidae family of spiders, which are famed for their size ... regular found-indoors giant house spider.
The English zoo celebrated 10 years since they released thousands of giant fen raft spiders ... by emphasizing the arachnid's large size, stating that spiders can "grow to be the size of your ...
It's easy to understand why the spider sounds terrifying, though. They can measure up to 3 inches with their legs spread, about the size of your palm and far larger than a quarter-inch house spider.