Agreed Nick. These Huntsman spiders are pretty timid, despite being large and scary-looking. They do hurt if they bite you, but it's not going to be fatal and they'd usually just prefer to run away.
I'm kinda happy to tolerate them around the house as they eat lots of other things I'd prefer not to share with. However under pressure from SWHBO, who pointed out that maybe they wouldn't appreciate being accidentally being sat on, I used to just chase them out the back door. Occasionally though I'd come across one with a bad attitude so the size 10 would come out. Hopefully I was using natural selection around my place to breed less-aggressive ones...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
