Take a moment to gather yourself before continuing if you are an arachnophobe because this spider will ruin your sleep.

Piotr Naskrecki, a Harvard entomologist, recently wrote on his blog about an animal in Ghana’s rain forest that was eating a Southern America Goliath birdeater, a spider that is as big as a small dog or puppy. Their limb spread surpasses 30 cm (early a foot), and they weigh up to 170 g, according to Naskreski.

The spider has enormous fangs that can impair a greater person’s skill.

Naskrecki’s account of his encounter with the spider reads like something out of a nightmare. “The spider would begin rubbing its high legs against the hairy abdominal region. When I initially noticed this cute tendency, I thought, “Oh, how cute,” but then a clump of stray hair hit my eyes and caused me to scratch and cry for a few days. The entomologist goes into further detail, stating that the spider produced a loud hissing sound and was “capable of pinning a greater skill and would try to poke me with the poison implements.”

Naskrecki claims that the spider is “very much safe to humans,” but for those who have a mild case of arachophobia, this spider will undoubtedly make many people feel uneasy at home. For those who are feeling anxious after seeing this enormous bird-eating spider in all of its hairy, hissing, eight-legged magnificence, bear in mind that this spider actually makes noises while it moves, so it would probably wake you up before putting you to sleep with its fags.

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