I'll never moan about the size of British spiders. My sister lives in Texas and found this horror on her porch. She also has 17 of the things in a tree on her land.
Her husband won't let her. He says that they don't have any problems with mosquito's
They aren't poisonous, just huge. I suppose having black widows, Brown recluse, water moccasin's and rattle snakes, this thing is the least of her worries.
I freaked out when I saw a tree roach when I was there. There is NO WAY I could handle one of these things. I have a huge spider phobia. I had to try and post this thing without looking to much