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[DarkPadawan]

On the subject of bugs. I get a call from a friend a couple of weeks ago and she has come home for lunch to find a spider on the outside of her back deck window. Now spiders are not normally a problem for me...especially when they're outside and I'm inside. My friend tells me that she's a bit concerned about this though because the spider is as big as one of the panes in the window. Yes folks, you heard that right. Well after having her describe the thing to me I realize that she's not exaggerating about the size and without knowing much else to do, she calls animal control.

At the first few words of her description, animal control transfers her to a special wildlife agency that the state of Georgia has hired to track and capture (when possible) the movement of Goliath Bird Spiders in the state. Apparently someone once brought these things into the country from South America as pets and their population is growing. Now all this information may not be nearly as skin crawling as this picture.

Goliath Bird Spider

This wildlife group says that they've been tracking the species down around Macon, Georgia (which gets close to Florida) but this was the first that they'd heard up in our area. I live about 10 minutes east of downtown atlanta and she lives about 30 minutes south.

If these things move north of the city that she lives in(mainly, in my direction)...I am outta here!