Giant House Spiders normally like to take up residence ... bigger and there is some evidence to suggest that the average size ...

The creature was a Heteropoda venatoria, a member of the huntsman or Sparassidae family of spiders, which are famed for their size ... regular found-indoors giant house spider.

Hemsworth, a colossal funnel-web spider recently donated to the Australian Reptile Park, could make significant contributions to the park's life-saving venom-milking program, keepers say.

Well done for taking its picture with the pencil parer for size comparison ... because that was an outdoor spider that got caught in the rain. This is the giant house spider (Eratigena duellica ...