Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Spiders/13/en
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2. What is the largest member of the spider family?
The goliath bird eating spider (also called the birdeater) (Theraphosa blondi) is an arachnid belonging to the tarantula family and is the largest spider in the world. The spider was named by explorers from the Victorian era, who witnessed one eating a hummingbird and reported the sighting to the Western world.