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Query: Are there giant spiders in Australia?
More than a thousand Sparassidae species occur in most warm temperate to tropical regions of the world, including much of Australasia, Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, and the Americas.[4]
Caladenia excelsa, commonly known as the giant spider orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rare species with a single, hairy leaf and up to three cream-coloured to greenish-cream flowers with long, drooping sepals and petals. It is one of the tallest spider orchids in Western Australia and, with "Caladenia splendens", has the largest flowers of any Western Australian orchid.
The video features Wardęga's pet dog "Chica" wearing a large spider costume. In the video, people going about daily chores such as putting out a garbage bin or waiting for an elevator are confronted by the "Mutant Giant Spider Dog" and flee.
The signature spider, giant wood spider and red wood spiders are often seen during the monsoon and soon after. Some hunting spiders like the wolf spiders, crab spiders and lynx spiders are also common.
With speeds clocked at (1.18 mph), the giant house spider held the Guinness Book of World Records for top spider speed until 1987 when it was displaced by solifugids, although the latter are not true spiders.
A giant robotic black widow. The Mark XV attacked Spider-Man and Black Cat while the two were on a building. The Mark XV was easily defeated when the Black Cat cut the web-line it was hanging from, causing it to fall off the building. Revealed to have survived the fall, the Spider-Slayer combined with Marks XVI and XVII to create one giant robot. This amalgamation of Spider-Slayers was destroyed when Spider-Man jammed a live cable into its circuitry.
More recently, giant spiders have featured in books such as the 1998 fantasy novel "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling. This book was later followed by a motion picture of the same name, using the giant spider Aragog from the novel as a supporting character and pet of grounds keeper, Hagrid. In "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", a book about many of the creatures within the Harry Potter universe, these giant spiders are also known as Acromantulas.
The spider is also found in modern children's tales. The nursery rhymes "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Little Miss Muffet" have spiders as focal characters. The poem "The Spider and the Fly" (1829) by Mary Howitt is a cautionary tale of seduction and betrayal which later inspired a 1949 film and a 1965 Rolling Stones song, each sharing the same title, as well as a 1923 cartoon by Aesop Fables Studio.
The giant huntsman spider (scientific name Heteropoda maxima), found in Laos, is a species of huntsman spider ("Sparassidae"), a family of large, fast spiders that actively hunt down prey. It is considered the world's largest spider by leg span, which can reach up to .
The large spider, the huge spider, and the giant spider appeared in the "Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set" (1977).
The Giant Spider Invasion is a 1975 science fiction horror film directed by Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. "The Giant Spider Invasion" was given a U.S. release in theaters in 1975, and was distributed by Group 1 Films. The film received a considerable theatrical run and became one of the fifty top-grossing films of that year. After a three-time ABC television network run, the movie achieved additional exposure many years later, when it was featured in a 1997 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". It is now regarded as a cult classic in the B movie realm.
The film gives major roles to some actors who might have been considered "has-beens" at the time. The leads were Steve Brodie and Barbara Hale, with other roles going to Alan Hale, Jr. and Leslie Parrish. The film's one "Giant Spider" was constructed by covering a Volkswagen automobile with artificial black fur, with the fake legs operated from the inside by seven members of the crew. The back of the car was the front of the monster, and its red tail lights served as the monster's glowing eyes. A few other "giant spiders" were puppets representing spiders as large as dogs, while full-grown tarantulas were used as spider hatchlings.
Giant spiders appear in several role-playing games, such as Lolth, the Spider Queen of "Dungeons & Dragons", and the first edition of "", where spiders are described as being "of staggering size—perhaps 15 feet around—with great furred body." In video games, spiders or spider-shaped foes are common, such as the "Metroid" series where the trilogy's antagonist, Metroid Prime, has a spider-like Metroid as her primary physical form. This trilogy also includes the Ing, antagonists of "," whose warrior forms resemble five-legged spiders. "Atlach-Nacha" is an H-game centered on a spider demon disguising herself as a human. In "The Legend of Zelda" series, giant spiders are a frequent foe. In particular, "Ocarina of Time" features large spiders named Skulltulas, and "Twilight Princess" has an enormous spider boss. A spider-like creature named Muffet is featured in the 2015 video game Undertale.
An unidentified alternate universe version of Spider-Man who lives in the Savage Land. When Peter and his family were flying inside a plane, the engine started burning and Peter's parents gave him the only parachute left in the plane to save Peter. Peter landed on the Savage Land where he was raised by a tribe of giant spiders. The spiders made Peter to go under the Trial of 1,000 Venoms where he was injected different poisons by the spiders to see if Peter would survive. He succeeded, and from the trial he got spider-powers. Now with his powers, he protects the land from the intruders like Wilson Fisk of the company Kingliner and Ka-Zar the Hunter when they are poaching dinosaurs. There was also a mentioning that Ka-Zar the Hunter's father killed the last of the Man-Things as he unknowingly sets off one of Savage Spider-Man's traps that nearly crushes Ka-Zar the Hunter. Savage Spider-Man then confronts Wilson Fisk who recognizes him as Peter Parker. A flashback in a discussion between Richard and Mary Parker and Wilson Fisk mentioned that Peter was supposed to stay with his aunt until something happened to his uncle. When Fisk's soldiers show up to attack, the giant spiders also arrive and attack the soldiers while some of them follow Fisk onto his airplane. Savage Spider-Man swings away as more giant spiders surround the airplane.
Deeper shaded gullies support a range ancient species including land snails, trapdoor spiders and giant earthworms that date back over millions of years.[[Category:National parks of Western Australia]]
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Carol and Mike have a hard time convincing the sheriff about the giant spider, but with the help of their science teacher, Mr. Kingman, they return to the cave and find the missing man's body, drained of fluids. The spider attacks again, convincing the sheriff, who orders large amounts of DDT to kill the giant spider. The apparently lifeless body of the spider is taken back to town to the high school gym, where Kingman wants to study it. A group of teenagers uses the gym to practice rock and roll numbers they are going to play for a school dance. The music awakens the giant tarantula and it crashes through the wall of the gym. The janitor, stopping to call the sheriff, is killed.
A population of giant house spiders is popularly thought to be a deterrent to the establishment of "Eratigena agrestis", known in North America as the "hobo spider", and considered by some to be more likely to bite humans. Giant house spiders may compete with hobo spiders for the same resources.
Hobo spiders grow no more than a body size of long whereas the larger female giant house spider can have a body size of , but has proportionately much longer legs.
In Congo folklore, the jba fofi or j'ba fofi (Baka: "giant spider"), also known as the Congolese giant spider, is a creature said to exist in the Congo, possibly representing a new species of arachnid. Popular interest in the creature was sparked by the TV series "Monster Quest" in 2008. Although best known for sightings within Africa, purported giant spiders have been reported worldwide.
In 2012, film historian Bill Dexter found the shells of the two thirty-feet spiders with the intent on restoring the spiders to their original form. In 2013, the shell of one of the main giant spider was reported stolen by Rebane. Weeks later a recycling facility announced that the giant spider was brought to them as scrap metal.
Caladenia splendens, commonly known as the splendid spider orchid, or splendid white spider orchid is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single erect, hairy leaf and up to three mostly white flowers with a fringe of long teeth on the sides of the labellum. Along with the giant spider orchid, "Caladenia excelsa" it is the largest of the spider orchids.
During the "Spider-Island" storyline, Damage Control is seen working with the superheroes to clean up the destruction and chaos caused by the madness of a giant spider monster in the middle of Manhattan. Along with passing out pants to formerly spider-shaped New Yorkers, Damage set to work carting away parts of the Spider Queen's giant arachnid body. At least one Damage Control team had been infiltrated and controlled by the Jackal, a self-admitted mad scientist who wanted DNA from the spider monster.
The Godzilla franchise includes a giant spider kaiju named Kumonga ("Spiga" in English versions), first appearing in 1967's "Son of Godzilla". The 1999 film "Wild Wild West" features a giant mechanical spider. Experiments with spiders in space tend to go horribly wrong, as with a DNA experiment on board a NASA space shuttle in the 2000 film "Spiders", or mutant spiders from a derelict Soviet space station in the 2013 film "Spiders 3D". Before there were "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), there were spiders on a plane in "" (1977). Radiation and spiders once again combine to wreak havoc in the 2002 film spoof "Eight Legged Freaks", this time due to nuclear waste.
Artema atlanta is a species of spider of the family Pholcidae with a pantropical distribution. It is commonly known as the giant daddy-long-legs spider, in Australia and South Africa. With a body length of 8–11 mm, it is the largest pholcid in the world.
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Keith McKeown wrote "Spider Wonders of Australia" in 1936, followed by "Australian Spiders: Their Lives and Habits" in 1952 and "Australian Spiders in 1963". Barbara York Main, based in Western Australia, wrote a Jacaranda Pocket Guide in 1964. John Child published Spiders of Australia in 1965. In 1967 V. V. Hickman, contributed "Some Common Spiders of Tasmania". Ion Staunton was author of a factfinder book "All about Australian Spiders" in 1968. Densey Clyne published Australian Spiders in 1969. Ramon Mascord published "Australian Spiders in Colour" in 1970, "Australian Spiders" in 1978 and "Spiders of Australia" in 1980.
The coloration is yellowish-brown with several irregularly distributed dark spots on the rear half. The legs have wide dark bands before the first bend. Like all huntsman spiders, the legs of the giant huntsman spider are long compared to the body, and twist forward in a crab-like fashion.