I acquired three huntsman spiders from a rare pet dealer in Somerville. They’re quite fearsome in person I must say. I figure I’ll put one in the bathroom behind the toilet, and I’ll try to coax the other to stay behind the clock in the main lab area.
The IMHO part of this is me asking you guys, where would be a good place for the third? I figure the hallway is out, way too immediate and it would give away the whole trick before everyone even gets in the lab in the morning. Maybe a desk drawer? That would be a good “gotcha yah”.
No one will ever forget my last day working there.
We do have overhead florescent lights, with covers. That’s a good idea. Maybe a room that normally has the lights off in the morning though. Wouldn’t want to give away the location too early.
It is a well known fact that huntsmen spiders feel an affinity to clocks, so that one won’t move. The one in the bathroom is a wild card, maybe he’ll sneak under the toilet lid.
Could you get one to sit right beside the lightswitch so that whoever turns the lights on will realise just how close they came to actually touching it?
OMFG! I found one of those crawling across the floor in my hotel room in Orlando…it then crawled up into the couch/folding bed. I thought it might be a Wolf Spider, but seeing the body shape of the Huntsman, that’s what it must’ve been. It wasn’t all that big, though, maybe 3 inches across, including the legs.
(Okay, okay, one of them is just 8 inches. I’m considering using that as the one I suspend under the light to scamper around when one of my coworkers turns it on.)
I think they are cute. I was staying in a cabin recently and found one on the bathroom door. When I woke in the morning and had a shower I noticed he’d moved onto the shower curtain. I felt sad to leave my little buddy.
