Great???? Anyone?? This is good right?
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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Spider meat burritos are about to get even more affordable in the UK, seriously I can't wait
....3 more spideritos please! And a side of legs! Fried!
This is good, I promise! Unless you're an arachnophobe who made their home literally in a fen I guess...
I didn't know UK rats were this tiny.
Actually the headline of ops article is an exaggeration. The spider only grow upt to 8cm.
Oh I'm well aware. News article about spiders usually get the size wrong. And most other things.
The article is very poorly written. Saying they can grow to the size of a mans hand? Good thing that all men have the same size hands.
It's also not the "The UK’s largest breed of spiders". If they are going by legspan (which they have to do to get anywhere near hand size) then Tegenaria parietina has it easily beaten.
Their webs grow up to 25cm in diameter, but they themselves are much smaller(up to 8cm)
Plus the article is referring to total leg span as its size, where many people are thinking of the size of the spider's body. They're not very big, nowhere near the size of most tarantulas. They're so small and light they can literally walk on water.