Stay away from Charlotte’s web.
Photos of an incredibly large huntsman spider named Charlotte in Australia have sunk their fangs into the internet, catching thousands of likes and horrifying countless others.
Captured about a year ago, the Aussie oddity is only now finding internet fame thanks to post on social media by the Brisbane Valley-based Barnyard Betty’s Rescue, “a sanctuary for orphaned, mistreated and unwanted farm animals who if not rescued would be destined for a certain death.”
“She was a beautiful, calm spider, not aggressive in any way and like most spiders she just wanted to go about her business eating bugs and living in peace,” Barnyard Betty’s Rescue stated on Facebook. “She didn’t or doesn’t need to be killed! Poor spiders are so misunderstood!”
The popularity of the images arrives the same week as a man reportedly drove his car into a lake when a huntsman spider — the species being capable of producing a shrieking noise — crawled on top of him.
Claiming he meant to stop his vehicle but instead jammed on the accelerator, the driver luckily was able to escape his SUV before it sank into Lake Cathie.
