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Old 09-05-2012, 09:32 AM   #813
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Originally Posted by jhunt223 View Post
Yeah that was it.

"With speeds clocked at 1.73 ft/s (0.53 m/s), the giant house spider held the Guinness Book of World Records for top spider speed until 1987 when it was displaced by sun spiders (solfugids) although the latter are not true spiders as they belong to a different order.[1]"

**** me.

So does that mean I probably have more of them crawling around in here?
I read something about the males going indoors in the fall to look for mates. So if you're lucky, this was just a single guy on the prowl.
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