By Heath MooreVideo will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playA Christchurch woman has stumbled across an incredibly large spider in the dunes of the seaside suburb New Brighton. On Tuesday, Baylee Bensley-Howell captured footage of the spider which she described as the "biggest spider I've ever seen". "It gave him a bit of a fright, so he had to go investigate," she told the Herald. "I wasn't frightened, but I definitely wouldn't want to come across one in my house!" The native nursery-web spider had a black body with white stripes on its back and dark red legs, but is completely harmless.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 20, 2017 05:15 UTC