Startling photographs show spider eating bird

Submitted by OctopusRex: Photographs of a giant spider eating a bird in an Australian garden have stunned wildlife experts.

The pictures show the spider with its long black legs wrapped around the body of a dead bird suspended in its web.The startling images were reportedly taken in Atheron, close to Queensland's tropical north.

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Orb spiders are the only ones that truly creep me out and that is just...... hike up the skirts and scream like a wee young girl.

i can deal with roaches, rats, snakes, ect., but not spiders. i've always hated them. if i EVER came in contact with one that big, i would probably literally pass-out. that is terrible.

Euw, that is just gross

Normally slugs gross me out more than spiders, but in this case I am not so sure...

The bird looks really fake

Spiders make me wanna kill myself.

Flamethrower please.

Why so many spider haters????

i think there cool.

but man that is one big spider.

whoever took the pics was a really good photographer.

i wonder does the spider taste like chicken

And this is why I will never go to Austraila

Cool story, in theory the spider can eat anything including a human (not a whole one obviously) because it turns the victim's body into a soup and slurps away like a kid with a McDonalds milkshake. If a human was to get tangled in its web it could eat it's fair share no problem, but don't worry you could not get stuck in its web. Well, unless it's my mate Dave who's a right puny git.

spiders rule!

That is one creepy, freaky sider! And i'm not usually affraid of spiders, but when i am it's the long skinny legs that get to me! And this one has the longest ones i've ever seen on a spider!

Spiders are like the Vampires of the real world, its amazing how they feed!

It could be considered that the bird could have been sickly to fly into the web in the first place.

Thus the spider was in fact helping in keeping nature cleansed.

I suppose bugs aren't on the menu lately...

Holy! That Is So Cool!

I wishi I could see 1 in actionn xD

If you like Orb Weaver spiders you're gonna love this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJhB_huJYI

WARNING:Not for the faint-hearted arachnophobiacs.

i can deal with roaches, rats, snakes, ect., but not spiders. i've always hated them. if i EVER came in contact with one that big, i would probably literally pass-out. that is terrible.

For sure a different approach to it from my own. I actively bring indoor spiders into my home from work to keep other insects at an absolute minimum.

Spiders make me wanna kill myself.

Flamethrower please.

Do you need help?

How nasty is that? I heard of bird eating spiders here but I never thought they were a real thing. I am never going to Queensland. EVER!

How nasty is that? I heard of bird eating spiders here but I never thought they were a real thing. I am never going to Queensland. EVER!

Bird eating Tarantulas (Bob the tarantula from arachnophobia) I can handle, but like I said in the first post there is just something about orb spiders that creep me out.

And we have schoolies up in QLD next month.

Lucky them.

*giggles wickedly*

The bird looks really fake

Not even slightly.

Orb spiders freak me right out... i also dislike those ones that live inside leaves that are stuck in the web....