There are also large huntsman spiders in australia.
Spider size of dinner plate australia.
But the giant huntsman spider or heteropoda maxima is the world s largest spider by diameter.
Betty s posted it online and described the encounter.
While the average huntsman spider is only about 1 inch long with a 5 inch leg span the largest one ever recorded had a leg span of around 12 inches roughly the size of a dinner plate.
Average huntsman spiders are about an inch long with a leg span measured diagonally from the tip of one leg to the tip of the opposite leg of up to 5 inches.
A viral photo taken by betty herself testifies to this after she rescued a huntsman spider the size of a dinner plate.
Photos of a terrifying huntsman spider took the internet by storm in 2016 after the critter was found on a farm in queensland australia.
And people s fears were reignited after a monster spider the size of a dinner plate went on the loose in a terrified couple s home in queensland back in 2017.
The world s largest spider is the size of a dinner plate.
It s as big as a dinner plate with a leg span of up to 1 foot.