Giant spiders invade Australian Outback town

Times Online ^ | May 6, 2009

[metmom]

Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland.

Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as “bird-eating spiders” and can grow larger than the palm of a man’s hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane.

[green pastures]

Kind of like that “I know an old lady...” song.

[envisio]

They are also known as whistling or barking spiders

I have those under my desk.

[a fool in paradise]

Giant Spider ping...

[a fool in paradise]

When you step on them, they sound like a duck.