please subscribe to my channel and hit the bell icon welcome to the ac family enjoy ac family behold the beast i caught scuttling across the floor shortly after i was bitten check out the size of her this here was the absolute biggest spider spider i've ever seen in real life now i say spider spider because this isn't by definition a tarantula so to speak but rather a huntsman spider which i'll talk more about in a bit but it was certainly as big as many of my pet tarantulas i had back home but there's something about this spider which i'll be revealing to you shortly not all is as it seems ac family i'll also attempt to feed this beast later in the video so do stay tuned for all that coming up now i know a lot of you out there are arachnophobic so i won't be showing too much footage of this spider moving around and stuff but i will tell you this spider is lightning fast my heart was racing a million miles a second trying to catch her and copper into this container a NUMBER_TOKEN minute process which i wasn't able to film because i would have had to set up my camera and it would have truly been hard to multitask such a thing i'll just leave it to your imagination guys but just know it took full hyper focused effort to catch it around my room and finally contain it i still am shocked i managed to pull it off speaking of which some of you may be wondering and canada what was a spider of this size doing in your room well if you saw last week's video i'm currently residing in the rainforest in a cottage for the next few months and needless to say it's a total different and exotic world out here in my first week a full out nuptial flight happened in my room and i was able to collect NUMBER_TOKEN queen ants and place them in test tubes for rearing ant colonies from them hopefully fingers crossed and the next night i got bit before going to bed and here we are with this huntsman her face looked just crazy look at all those eyes and her fangs now there are actually more than a thousand species of huntsman spiders in the world all belonging to the family sporacity they eat insects other spiders lizards and other small invertebrates i know all you australian ac family members might be familiar with these spiders they're quick and get their name from their amazing hunting prowess which brings me now to feeding time let's try feeding your ac family shall we now with ants i usually pre-kill insect prey because i don't like seeing prey insects suffer over an extended period of time but with arachnids they need live prey because their movement allows the spider to perceive the prey as food and so i grabbed the closest and largest insect i could find in my room a stray queen ant that was a day late in flying sorry queenie your spider food tonight the spider could feel the queen ant moving around her container
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