Of all of the creepy and crawly things that you can think of, tarantulas probably are near the top of the list when it comes to scariness. Well, get ready to add another terrifying arachnid to your list, because a new type of tarantula has been discovered in northern Sri Lanka.
Ranil Nanayakkara, a local researcher, and his team found the tiger spider and named it Poecilotheria rajaei, after a local police investigator, Michael Rajakumar Purajah. Purajah helped the team of scientists navigate the remote area where the spider was found.
Spiders don’t bother me. Snakes on the other hand…
Puhlease no more of this type of thing. I was once attacked by a giant spider in Zimbabwe – well, it leapt on my leg, perhaps not knowing what it was doing – and although I knocked it off pronto, wherever its hairy body had touched my skin I came out in a terrible rash. Nightmarish. On another occasion walking in the garden I spotted a communal web on a guava tree – a large, funnel-shaped thing that trapped very small birds that were eaten with relish by the spider colony. Shudder.