Father films moment he came face-to-face with a massive spider
This heart-stopping video captures the moment a gas engineer is confronted by a huge spider
John Buchan, 24, discovered the ’10cm-long’ creepy crawly – which he believed to be a freakishly large false widow spider – lurking in a meter box.
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A petrifying clip, shakily recorded on his mobile phone, shows the thick-bodied arachnid extending its eight spindly legs as it scuttles around a web.
Dad-of-one John, of Niddrie, Edinburgh, said: ‘I opened up the external gas meter and didn’t notice the spider straight away. Then I spotted it. It was about the size of a mouse – even bigger.
‘I see spiders all the time doing this job by I have never seen anything like that. Its body was enormous – it had a big ball on its back.
‘Its legs were thicker than anything I’ve ever seen – they were hairy and horrible. From its bottom legs to the top it was probably about 10cm long. It was about the size of a can of drink.
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‘It was moving around a lot. I touched it with something and it started running. It was moving quickly around the meter box.
‘I showed the tenant a photo of it and he said, “I hope it doesn’t get in here”.’
False widow spiders, which usually grow to the size of a 20p coin, have dark, shiny bodies with pale markings.
They pack a poisonous, painful bite which can trigger serious allergic reactions causing chest pain, swelling and nausea.
But Professor Adam Hart, of the University of Gloucestershire, said the spider is probably an oversized house spider.
He said: ‘We usually see large numbers of them in the autumn as the males move around looking for mates – this tends to being them into our houses.
‘Some of them can be pretty impressive but they aren’t dangerous.
‘We have a very benign fauna in this country – there are very few things that can do us any harm at all and even the larger spiders are basically harmless.’
Father films moment he came face-to-face with a massive spider
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