Meanings of large spiders in English

Wounds inflicted by large spiders, centipedes, tarantulae, and scorpions have proved fatal.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it's likely that the reasons for such large spiders are quite mundane.

I have seen some very large spiders this year!

Two large spiders scuttled over them, black and malevolent.

They have modelled themselves on tarantula hawk wasps, which famously hunt large spiders such as tarantulas.

Then came larger ones, and finally beetles, crickets, large spiders, etc., were dropped into the yawning mouths.

By digging, however, in the ground, several insects, large spiders, and lizards were found in a half-torpid state.

The swamps were full of large spiders, which crawled all over us; we had to keep continually brushing them off.

Wasps are said to catch large spiders, and to cut off their legs, and carry their mutilated bodies to their young, Dict.

In another, a father describes to his children the jungle animals at his camp and the large spiders he finds in his bunk.

I have often seen large spiders making off many yards in advance, and apparently determined to put a good distance between themselves and their foe.