Friday, 12 October 2012

Spider!

Several people were talking about this on Facebook last night - and the whole story is on page 3 of the Hereford Times.
A huntsman spider, from Australia, was found in the Granary cafe on Tuesday morning - crawling up a customer's back! Huntsman spiders are huge! (Well, 10cm or 4 inches across is pretty huge for a spider). This one was apparently the size of a tennis ball. They called it Cyril, and took it to the local vet for identification - and now it's going to a new home at the West Midland Safari Park.
The customer it was crawling on had recently returned from Australia, and thought it might have stowed away in his luggage.
Oh, and Cyril is probably a girl.

1 comment:

Eigon said...

There's also a good article about the spider in the B&R this week, with pictures of Cyril!