Giant Alien Spider Eats Bird

[El Freako]

For all you spider lovers out there.

Giant spider snapped eating bird in backyard near Cairns
October 23, 2008 12:54pm

THIS amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns.

The image, which is being cirulated via email worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post reported.

The photo, believed to have been taken earlier this week, shows the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web at a property near Atherton, west of Cairns.

Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, has told ninemsn the spider was a golden orb weaver.

"Normally they prey on large insects, it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he said.

Mr Shakepeare said he had seen Golden Orb Weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24540399-5009760,00.html

 

[brendan]

that is just amazing. nice post bro.

 

[ironheart]

damn that's scary. i hate spiders

 

[miamiracing]

waah thats gross.. i hate spiders x2

 

[Hypocrisy86]

Awesome

 

[Adam23]

thats some crazy ass spider

 

[Tonyk212000]

Interesting.

 

[brendan]

indeed.

eight legged freaks.

 

[DriDDeRz]

ditto,
i hate spider!!!

i killed a redback spider in my bedroom yesterday

 

[Hypocrisy86]

I like to follow them around
like a stalker
then when they find out im stalking them
CRUNCH

 

[miamiracing]

^

 

[Adam23]

I like to follow them around
like a stalker
then when they find out im stalking them
CRUNCH

that sounds like fun

 

[Bhana]

That spider must be on HGH cus its freaking huge, thank god i live in England!

 

[Mygeeto]

ah lovely its an AUSTRALIAN spider too

 

[Skeptic]

fuckin glad i live 1000km away from cairns. fuck cairns.

 

[Bhana]

I like to follow them around
like a stalker
then when they find out im stalking them
RAPE

Fixed

 

[Rageking]

no way thats real, how did the bird get stuck in the web? no way it couldnt fly threw, unless that thing was like 50 layers thick.