A Sydney woman has filmed her hilarious battle to flush an enormous huntsman spider out of her car after it terrorised her for four days straight.
Candii Banks first spotted the harmless spider crawling along her dash board and onto her window as she drove to work.
‘The first day I was driving along the highway and I happened to look down and saw him climbing across the dash, up my door and onto the window sill,’ Ms Banks said.
The huntsman spider called Candii Banks’ car home for four days
Candii Banks filmed herself being freaked out by a massive huntsman spider in her car that refused to budge for four days
‘When he was on the window I tried to flick him out but he made it back inside and ran up into the air vent,’ she added.
‘I am generally pretty calm with spiders but huntsmans move quick and the thought of one on me while confined in the car was a little unnerving.’
‘When I got to work I thought the only logical thing to do apart from setting the car on fire was put the blower on full blast and blow him out of the air vent. I couldn’t believe it actually worked! He made a jump for it and ran under my car.’
If she’d thought she’d seen the end of it, she was wrong.
She spotted the huntsman running across her bonnet the following day.
‘I had a feeling he’d be back,’ Ms Banks said.
‘I was calm until he started to climb up the windscreen, I was trying to figure out how I was going to catch him.’
‘I’d basically spent the week with this little guy and even though he scared the heck out of me at times, I kind of missed him once he was gone!,’ Candii Banks said.
The huntsman found many hiding spots in the car, much to Candii Banks’ frustration
Armed with a spider catcher, Ms Banks was better prepared on day four and seized her moment while driving to work.
‘I spotted his little legs from behind the steering wheel, I pulled over and tried to get him out but had no luck until about 15 minutes later as I was about to take off from a set of lights, he reared his fuzzy head again so I pulled over out front of a servo.’
“I managed to get a hold of his leg but he wiggled free and ran back onto the steering column for a minute until he decided to pop back out again.
‘That was when I managed to get a good hold of him and release him outside onto the grass.’
Ms Bank said her pesky passenger got her in trouble with the law.
The huntsman are a non-aggressive group of spider. While it can give a painful bite it is non toxic to humans.
Despite being terrified by the spider, Ms Banks maintained a sense of humour throughout the seven minute YouTube video.
There was a hint of sadness in the video after she finally got rid of him.
‘I’d basically spent the week with this little guy and even though he scared the heck out of me at times, I kind of missed him once he was gone,’ she said.
Armed with a spider catcher, Ms Banks was better prepared on day four and seized her moment while driving to work.