La mygale de Leblond (Theraphosa leblondi), qui vit en Guyane, est la deuxième plus grosse araignée du monde. En liberté, elle peut dépasser 25 cm (envergure du corps, pattes comprises) et bien plus en captivité.

Son venin n’est pas mortel pour l’homme. Par contre, en cas de danger, elle dispose de poils urticants qu’elle projette en frottant ses pattes postérieures sur le dessus de l’abdomen. Ce poil peut momentanément aveugler un intrus .

Cette mygale géante a longtemps figuré dans le livre des records comme la plus grosse araignée du monde.
Mais, la première place revient maintenant à la Pseudotheraphosa apophysis.


voici quelques "modèles corrects" de ces "familles de gros" (mygale de Leblond):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ondi_1.jpg
http://www.virginmedia.com/images/amazo ... 31x300.jpg
http://www.gedcasserley.saddleworth.net ... Jess21.jpg


qu'elles vous fassent frissonner ou non, les araignées ne sont pas nos ennemies. Elles n'aspirent pas à vous sucer le sang la nuit. Laissez les tranquilles et économisez vos coups de tatane.


EDIT: une belle Lasiodora parahybana en video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i0IpU-1 ... re=related

Il parrait que nous avalons au moin une fois dans notre vie une araignée pendant notre sommeil : C'est pour cà que je n'ai jamais faim au déjeuner

Je savais bien que je n' aurais pas dû parcourir ce topic...Brrr
Esprit de contradiction, quand tu nous tiens...

Disons que cà doit-être incomfortable d'écraser cà avec un mouchoir




Il parrait que nous avalons au moin une fois dans notre vie une araignée pendant notre sommeil : C'est pour cà que je n'ai jamais faim au déjeuner
Hmmmmm menummm menummm

I was in Zimbabwe Africa once (don’t ask why, it’s a long story) and the lodge we stayed in was freaking infested with spiders about that size! We spent about 3 hours going around our room killing them so we could sleep without worring about them eating our faces in the middle of the night. In the above comment, Spinksy was 100% correct about the death by flame method! We found one spider that was so huge, when I tried to smash it with a boot I only hit its leg and its LEG left a splatter mark in the wall!! JUST ITS LEG!! So we busted out the makeshift flamethrower (hairspray and lighter) and torched that sucker from 3 inches away. It dropped off the wall, ran like a spider out of hell under a couch! We all screamed like little girls as we watched the couch go up in flames! We put the couch out and found the body hanging from a spring inside the couch. That experience will be burned (no pun intended lol!) into my mind forever! Lesson learned: fire doesn’t solve everything LOL!

I was in Zimbabwe Africa once (don’t ask why, it’s a long story) and the lodge we stayed in was freaking infested with spiders about that size! We spent about 3 hours going around our room killing them so we could sleep without worring about them eating our faces in the middle of the night. In the above comment, Spinksy was 100% correct about the death by flame method! We found one spider that was so huge, when I tried to smash it with a boot I only hit its leg and its LEG left a splatter mark in the wall!! JUST ITS LEG!! So we busted out the makeshift flamethrower (hairspray and lighter) and torched that sucker from 3 inches away. It dropped off the wall, ran like a spider out of hell under a couch! We all screamed like little girls as we watched the couch go up in flames! We put the couch out and found the body hanging from a spring inside the couch. That experience will be burned (no pun intended lol!) into my mind forever! Lesson learned: fire doesn’t solve everything LOL!

This is a female Giant Crab Spider in the family Sparassidae, probably the genus Olios. Nice image of the maternal behavior. We have read that the mother spider shares prey with her spiderlings.

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