Quote Originally Posted by bobthenuker
Yea those things are monsters! Did you ever see the picture of what really looks like a huge one, but it's really two (1 devouring the other), with a soldier holding it up? I was watching a show quite a while ago, I think on the history channel, don't remember which one though, and some 19th century explorer visited the amazon I think it was, and in his diary he stated that one breed of spider walked across the road, almost as big as his jeep. Imagine seeing that thing walking across your home.
Yeah...they can get rather large...most of the ones I saw in Iraq were prolly like 4", not too huge, but way too big for an arachnaphobe such as myself to wanna ever deal with. I think I've seen that picture that you're talking about, those damn things will eat anything they can get their fangs on, esp. each other. The biggest one I saw was dead and it was about 7-8" legspan, creeped me out for days, I was constantly checking all my gear for spiders for the whole 13 months I was over there.
A spider the size of a Jeep?!? I think that would be the point that I would turn around and say fuck the Amazon, I'm going home...lol.