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I just saw and caught my first big cane spider and still have the willies. I was glad to learn after the fact that they're not aggressive or poisonous; they're big and fast enough that they don't need to be.
I live in central Oahu, Mililani on a 26 acre wooded forrest. Many years ago this area was sugar cane, but developed with condos. My condo is on the 7th floor. Tonite is the second time a Cane/Hunstmans spider has been found in my place home. Difficult to catch it leaped about 3ft and ran into the closet. I don't think I will get much sleep tonite. Seven stories up in a 12 story bldg. omg! They scare the hell out of me.
seriously? happy face spiders are what was posted above, because they apear to have a smile face on their back. i actually saw one in my grandmas house when i was really young and there super super small. there only about and inch big, maybe smaller actually.
The happy-face spider exhibits an array of color patterns on the back of its abdomen, sometimes resembles a smiling face. These spiders blend in with the undersides of leaves where they build their flimsy webs and catch prey.
The happy-face spider is endemic to the Hawaiian archipelago but is only found on four of the islands: Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii. The spider populations on these four islands show off a variety of happy-face patterns. Such a variation in form is referred to as a polymorphism — many forms (also known as morphs).
I'm fascinated by all kinds of wildlife, and when I first went to the Big Island with my wife-to-be to meet her friends and family, I told her that I wanted to see a cane spider, a giant centipede, a honu, a nene, and all the other interesting creatures I'd heard about. Well, we arrived at the Hilo airport, got our rent-a-car, and opened the trunk... and there was a huge cane spider. I was thrilled; my wife, who hates spiders, wasn't. I removed it with some sort of container and put it in the grass. Scratch that one off my bucket list!
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