The Giant Wood Spider certainly is.
I'm not overly upset by many creatures, but this one give me the willies.
The thing gets massive.
In the spring it appears as a small spider, but by the autumn it is HUGE.
This one made itself a web on the front of the house on Halloween. A very nice decoration, but ewwww.
The pic at the bottom of the page shows the size compared to the thumb. Over 3 inches in the body, add the legs and it is dinner plate size.
In Japan they're called "O-jyorou gumo", "gumo" meaning spider, "O" meaning big and "jyorou" meaning "femme fatale".
The ladies get this big. The boys are only 5mm long.
They get big but their webs are even bigger - stretched to a diameter of one metre between the trees. Far too easy to accidentally walk straight into one as they sit in the middle of their web.
It belongs to the golden orb weaver family, which is why its silk is yellow, and this silk is the strongest of any spider. The one at the end of our garden caught a bat. A BAT!!
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