Pest control operator called to Brisbane home to deal with the ‘biggest huntsman’ he’s ever seen

A pest control operator has described a recent home call in Brisbane, where he came face to face with “the mother of all spiders”.

Gavin Shill, the owner and operator of a local Brisbane pest control business, received an urgent call by “petrified” West End home owners on Monday.

When he arrived at the property, Mr Shil, who’s been in the business for over a decade, said he was met with the biggest spider he’s “come across in all the years we have been doing pest control”.

“When we’re normally informed of big spiders they’re usually around half the size of this one,” he told 9news.com.au.

Mr Shil said the huntsman, likely a female, had a leg span of about 20 x 25 cm and covered about three quarters of the regular sized household broom he used to pick it up.

The spider, which would have crawled through the cracks in the timber flooring of the property had already picked up the poison that had been sprayed on the house two months earlier.

Mr Shil said it didn’t take long for him to catch the huntsman and move it to the garden.

He later took to Facebook to share photographs of the massive spider.

“So we had an urgent call from a customer that they had found the mother of all spiders. They weren’t kidding,” Mr Shil wrote.

The Facebook post has since received over 2000 comments and 400 likes.