There's not enough food inside a house for a huntsman spider, so they're best off outside."
If you find a huntsman spider in your house, yard or on your property, the best thing to do is to leave it alone. These spiders are not aggressive and will usually only bite if they feel threatened.
Huntsman spiders have an unfortunate reputation. One is their name. The other is a tendency to take up residency in your home or your car and scare the bejesus out of you. But they are harmless to humans and very useful in controlling mosquito and cockroach numbers.
Use a container and a piece of cardboard
This is quite useful when the spider is on a flat surface such as a wall. Place the jar or container over the spider. Then, slip the piece of cardboard or paper between the container and the wall. Now, you can move outside, place the container down, and let the spider leave.
According to Dr Lizzy, leaving them alone is a sensible course of action because the baby huntsmen won't stick around for long anyway. "When the babies hatch out, they disperse very quickly over one or two days. They are highly cannibalistic and don't want to be eaten by their nestmates.
Is It Safe To Handle A Huntsman Spider? It is not advised to handle any wild or unknown spider. You should not pick them up or trample on them with your bare feet. If you threaten them by picking them up or treading on them, they will bite you.
A Huntsman spider is not dangerous to adults. Typically, they are more likely to run away if they have an exit route. These are spiders that do not weave a web but hunt their prey by roaming the area, which often puts them in close proximity to people in their homes.
It is wise to check around your house from for huntsman spiders egg sac, whilst usually these would be produced outside, they can be found in many Australian houses.
Although they may be looking for potential prey, huntsman spiders will often find their way into your home during the warmer months to get away from the summer heat. Squeezing into gaps under doors and windows is natural behaviour and so makes them feel right at home.
These spiders are venomous but have very mild venom which is not considered dangerous to humans. Most are very reluctant to bite, and will attempt to run away from any threats they encounter. Contrary to popular belief, huntsman spiders do not chase people.
The spider, which has been named Chikunia bilde, has been found on the Indonesian island of Bali and has surprised researchers with its "unusually tolerant" demeanor towards humans and other spiders.
Water: Mist spray lightly around your spider every second day – it will drink the droplets. Enclosure: The enclosure needs to be large enough to allow your spider to shed its exoskeleton properly. An ideal enclosure should be higher than it is wide, as Giant Banded Huntsmen like to climb upwards.
Huntsman spiders, like all spiders, moult in order to grow and often their old skin may be mistaken for the original spider when seen suspended on bark or in the house. The lifespan of most Huntsman species is about two years or more.
Do huntsman spiders intentionally chase you? No. If you try to catch a huntsman and it runs towards you, it isn't attacking. It is trying to get to a safe place, away from the giant human thing looming over it.
Simon Lockrey, industrial design research fellow and former vacuum cleaner design engineer: It certainly could, depending on the vacuum cleaner. If there is a clear way out, the huntsman could make its escape when the vacuum is turned off.
"Spiders go looking for milder environments in terms of heat and humidity. So inside a house it's usually good. There's usually some water around and they'll gravitate to that," he said.
"It's pretty unlikely to ever happen," says an insect expert. PHEW. A chill of arachnophobia trickled across Australia this week after a NSW spider expert claimed it's "very likely" huntsman spiders have crawled across your face while you slept.
During the day, most huntsman spiders prefer to retreat in protected areas, like under rocks and the bark of trees. Although, most people encounter these spiders at home and in their car, whether it be inside a curtain ripple or the back of their car sun visor.
Can a huntsman spider bite? Huntsmen can and will bite, if provoked. They don't generally look for trouble with humans (they prefer to hide), but when threatened or when protecting their young, they can go on the offensive.
Sound production in mating rituals
Males of Heteropoda venatoria, one of the huntsman spiders that seems to easily find its way around the world, have recently been found to deliberately make a substrate-borne sound when they detect a chemical (pheromone) left by a nearby female of their species.
Despite their often large and hairy appearance, huntsman spiders are not considered to be dangerous spiders. As with most spiders, they do possess venom, and a bite may cause some ill effects. However, they are quite reluctant to bite, and will usually try to run away rather than be aggressive.
No-one has ever died from a huntsman bite, while there have been no recorded deaths from funnel webs or redbacks for a long time.
This treaty is very simple and was developed just after WW2. If a spider comes into an Australian Home, with the exception of the Huntsman, that spider dies. However Spiders out side the home are generally left alone unless they are of an immanent danger to human life. Spiders in the wild/bush are left alone.
Second, they are very smart. While the different species of huntsman spiders run at different speeds, the fastest among them run at rates comparable to Olympic sprinters, while the slower among them still run at speeds similar to a reasonably fit human's running speed.
Yet despite their apparent harmlessness, Daddy-long-legs have little trouble catching, wrapping and killing much larger Huntsman spiders. They have even been known to catch Redback spiders and Funnel-web spiders, both of which are far larger and more toxic than the Daddy-long-legs. So, what's their secret?