All spiders are known to live not only in the wild, but also settle in homes and city apartments.Appearing in a person's home, in some they cause fear and horror in others - disgust and revulsion.The biggest spiders reach truly epic proportions.Cases where giant spiders grow to 3.5 meters.And all would be well if they do not cause harm to humans.In the summer of 2012 in India, several people died from the attack of the monsters.To learn how to look and what to eat giant spiders, killer, will be discussed in this article.
biggest spider
incredible size spider - a crab Macrocheira kaempferi.Its length with outstretched limbs can reach 330 cm. These giant spider crab live in the Pacific Ocean near the islands of Kyushu and Honshu.With such an impressive body size is only 60 cm. Main Menu Giants: crustaceans, molluscs, small fish.For people who are not dangerous, quite the contrary.Young animals are caught and successfully sell to restaurants.Their meat - a valuable delicacy for which people spread a lot of money.But the old representatives of this species (spider crab lives about 50 years) are sent to the terrariums as the exhibition samples.Fear of the inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean is not worth much more terrible and poisonous land their relatives.
Giant spiders are hunters
The largest specimens belong to the family Sparassidae, in which there are 83 species, one of which is shown in the photo.Giant spiders are found in tropical jungles, but often creep into houses, and lead to the horror of their inhabitants. rainy season causes the entire colony to migrate in search of a suitable dwelling.Size Spider-hunter impressive adult female reaches 2.5-3 meters.This giant is not to be confused with crab, although superficially they are very similar.Coloring predatory spider - from light gray to dark brown.On the head are arranged in two rows of four pairs of eyes, sometimes the body is covered with red spots.All trunk closed scalp and foot - spikes.For where does a hell of a sight!Despite its appearance of combat, these giant spiders do not attack people and vertebrate animals.Their main diet - insects and small invertebrates.Experts say that these giants are useful, consuming large quantities of harmful insects: cockroaches and beetles.
Attacks predatory spiders in India
Summer 2012 will be remembered for a long time the inhabitants of the east of India, Assam.In the city of Sadia were numerous colonies of predatory spiders.Outwardly, they were similar to the tarantula, but scientists have long argued about it.According to eyewitnesses, the predators do not just bite the person, and literally attacked civilians.In the central square were religious celebrations and unsuspecting people got multiple bites.Two people died, about a dozen were hospitalized.As examination has shown, the poison of these predators was much more toxic than the ordinary tarantulas.Until now, there are disputes about the causes of such behavior of spiders, monsters.
