Ah, but they're just cute little things.

Hilarious that someone went to the trouble of downvoting you for this (comment is gray as I type this). Someone really doesn't like spiders.

The Huntsman spider in Australia is similarly harmless one might believe - a useful pest controller as well.

Until one crawls across the windshield of your car whilst driving.

I'm glad I was the driver when it happened. I can still remember the screams of my then co-pilot, however. She definitely had arachnophobia.

I was shocked to come back and now find 17 points on it. Some people are absolutely petrified by spiders, and I take great joy in taking the harmless ones and letting them crawl on my hands and so on. They're a very polarizing creature

I thought it said the size of a child's hand.

Having come across them in Japan many times, they can get as big as 10 cm across. Slightly less than a hand, but still extremely distressing when you run face-first into one.

Why do I keep reading the comments on this story?

I'm booking a one way trip to the North Pole or wherever these flying spiders aren't.

Sorry bud: Spiders make up a significant portion of the animal population in the Arctic. - https://animals.mom.com/spiders-arctic-6713.html

Looks like we're both signing up for the first one-way trip to Mars.

Some jerk is going to bring spiders and it will turn out that they're perfectly adapted to the Martian environment and it will just become the spider planet.

Somehow I made it all the way here before processing, how huge this thing is