Goliath Bird-eating Spider

Goliath bird-eating spider (once Mygale blondii, now Theraphosa blondi), as illustrated by Carl Wilhelm Hahn in his Monographia Aranearum, also known as Monographie der Spinnen, in the 1820s. The goliath bird-eater is the heaviest spider in the world, and it rarely eats birds

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom

Animalia Arachnid Arachnida Arachnidae Arachnology Araneae Aranearum Arthropoda Blondi Dorsal Goliath Hahn Monographia Monographie Mygale Pictorial Spider Spinnen Studies Tarantula Theraphosidae Zoological

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