Delete if it’s not the right place but does anyone know what this spider is? I opened my garage door and it scared me wife. Sorry about the quality, i had to run out of the garage and take the photo zoomed in (it looked around the same size as a huntsman and looked bigger than the normal spiders we get around here)
It would help to know where you live. Since you mentioned a Huntsman I’m assuming Australia?
Yeah Victoria, Australia
as mentioned above I would guess a Badumna spp by the looks, and being is Aus it would fit.
PS we ‘keep’ a few of these in our lounge in NZ to keep the fly population down over summer
I second Badumna insignis, or “black house spider”.
This is simultaneously a very good and bad assumption. Let me explain!
You can find huntsmen spiders in most parts of the world, but they are very unevenly distributed. I know we only have a single species in Western Europe, Micrommata virescens and it’s not a very common or noticeable one. Also rare in North America. But the rest of the Americas, SEA and Southern Africa (Madagascar for some reason specifically) has a lot of them.
But when you also factor in the location where lemmy users are probably from, Australia is probably a very likely place to associate with huntsmen. They have all the big ones and they’re common there. I wish we had more!