I remember unloading an Aussie herc in Cold Lake. We were pushing this pallet and the biggest spider I had ever seen crawled across the net by one of the guys heads. You would have thought the plane was about to explode by the way we ( Canadians) scrambelled out of that thing.
One of the crew hit it with a rag it fell on the ground and blue ooze was coming from it. Buddy called it a hunter spider and said it was harmless but was know to kill small birds and mice and the such.
Now to get some sight into what i was thinking. This was around the time that there was the big Mad Cow sacare in England. All forging passengers were being disinfected and Agriculture Canada was all over the place. So what do I do with this dead spider. "hey I think I will take it ti the Aggi Canada guys when they arrive. So I picked up he dead spider in a rag and put it in my pocket.
Other planes were showing up so I went to unload them. About 4 hours later I finally found one of the Aggi guys. I proudly took the spider out of my pocket and showed it to them. They brought out a specimen jar and I was putting him inside when the friggin thing moved. It had been alive in my pocket nearly the whole morning.
That was the biggest spider I had seen.