It s as big as a dinner plate with a leg span of up to 1 foot.
Spider size of dinner plate australia.
A viral photo taken by betty herself testifies to this after she rescued a huntsman spider the size of a dinner plate.
But the giant huntsman spider or heteropoda maxima is the world s largest spider by diameter.
Its fangs up to an inch.
While the average huntsman spider is only about 1 inch long with a 5 inch leg span the largest one ever recorded had a leg span of around 12 inches roughly the size of a dinner plate.
The world s largest spider is the size of a dinner plate.
After all this spider can have a leg span nearly a foot across the size of a dinner plate and weigh up to 6 ounces making it the largest spider in the world by mass.
Average huntsman spiders are about an inch long with a leg span measured diagonally from the tip of one leg to the tip of the opposite leg of up to 5 inches.
Most spiders are only a few centimetres long but a few species have grown far.
Photos of a terrifying huntsman spider took the internet by storm in 2016 after the critter was found on a farm in queensland australia.