This morning, while Yvo was about to take a shower, I walked to our office (Bedroom 1) to check the news and see what was happening on Facebook. I opened the door, died a little and then closed the door again. Probably inspired by the occupy-Wall-street-movement, a big brown spider had taken over the office and had started an occupy-Bernd-and-Yvos-office-movement. I opened the door again, at which point the spider decided that it didn’t like the ceiling anymore, so it let itself drop to the floor and then started running like an idiot. Around that time Yvo arrived and we took some pictures to identify this particular spider. Since removing big spiders is my new hobby, I proceeded capturing it in a pint glass and we took some more pictures. Please feel free to correct us, but we’re pretty sure that this was a Huntsman spider. Despite looking horrible, this spider actually captures other spiders, so it’s good to have Huntsman spiders around the house. Our little Huntsman now wanders around in the backyard, hopefully catching some white-tailed spiders for us.

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