Big spider in our apartment

@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

I can't even kill them. I don't think they'll harm us.

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@DaddyEvil (174208)

• United States

14 Jul 22

@luisga814 Okay. I just don't take chances with spiders. Too many of them in the US are venomous and some can present a danger to human health.

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• United States

14 Jul 22

@DaddyEvil I didn't know they did that. I thought only water creatures did that like a starfish.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

14 Jul 22

It looks like a brown recluse. If so it’s poisonous. Be careful and get rid of it quickly.

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• United States

14 Jul 22

@RubyHawk I didn't know that's what a brown recluse looks like. That is scary.

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@akanetuk (2132)

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14 Jul 22

The brown recluse usually has a thick stomach, but the one above does not.

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@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

Poisonous? I hope no one in the family will touch this.

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youless

@youless (114117)

• Guangzhou, China

14 Jul 22

That is a very huge spider. I think I will be scared to see that. But think for the positive way, at least it can catch the mosquitoes

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@akanetuk (2132)

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14 Jul 22

But for it to catch mosquito and other insects, it has to build cobwebs that will trap those insects, and a lot of people don't like cobwebs hanging in their houses.

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@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

That's good to know.

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lady Di

@lady1993 (27221)

• Philippines

14 Jul 22

We call that tapay-tapay here. Creeps me out but mom says it is harmless.

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@akanetuk (2132)

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14 Jul 22

It is harmless as I come across several myself.

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@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

@akanetuk Perfect. As of now, I don't know where's the spider is? If the spider still on the house or already outside.

@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

Oh. That's harmless?

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (148720)

• Roseburg, Oregon

14 Jul 22

I would get a broom and knock the spider down and sweep it into a dust pan and threw it outside.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (148720)

• Roseburg, Oregon

14 Jul 22

@luisga814 ICK! I hope you find it.

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@akanetuk (2132)

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14 Jul 22

I will sure do the same thing, may be without killing it.

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@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

As of the moment, I can't find the spider anymore. Where that's spider go?

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• United States

14 Jul 22

I would lose my mind if I saw a spider that big. I can't hardly even look at the picture of it. That is so weird that it only has 7 legs, maybe another spider ate one off.

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• United States

14 Jul 22

@akanetuk There's a great many in Texas also. I'm just so glad that not many of them come inside.

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@akanetuk (2132)

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14 Jul 22

Big spiders are common where I live, this is just a normal specie.

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@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

Based on my calculation, the spider is about5 centimeter in diameter.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (169406)

• United States

14 Jul 22

I do not recognize it. Maybe something caught it by a leg and it lost it. So he has to make do with seven.

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@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

14 Jul 22

He should take look back with his eight leg

louievill

@louievill (28846)

• Philippines

14 Jul 22

That is a huntsman spider, its a non web spinning specie similar to a tarantula. It's common in the Philippines, it feeds on cockroaches by pouncing on it's prey and sucking the life out of it. Don't worry it's not poisonous, it's harmless to us and helps keep pest population down. There are no known poisonous spiders in our country if I remember right.

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louievill

@louievill (28846)

• Philippines

16 Jul 22

@luisga814 if it's a huntsman then it has no venom, if it's brown recluse which is very very rare in our country then it has some kind of poison. It's difficult to tell from the picture.

@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

15 Jul 22

@louievill is that for real? Not poisonous?

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