It could be a scene in a horror film: you're trapped in a dark, confined space where hundreds of spiders are scrambling in all directions.
But it's all in a day's work for pest controller Noel Parminter, who stumbled upon a harrowing huntsman family in the roof of a Kholo home in Queensland, the Daily Mail reported.
Footage of the nasty surprise shows the mammoth mother spider keeping a close watch over her hatchlings as they clamber out of their nest.
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The Queensland veteran said it was the biggest arachnid he had encountered in his 16-year-career, estimating she measured in at about 20cm.