Yikes! My uncle in Puerto Rico has them in his backyard and said you can see the holes that they dig up or something. You KNOW I was watching everywhere I stepped for tarantula's.
I hyperventilate with panic at anything creepy and crawly. Last summer there was a giant, fat, ugly, hideous, brown WATER BUG in my apartment (thank you unknown relative who left my window screen open). I called my mother asking her to take a cab and come over and kill it. Sorry animal lovers! That thing was just too ugly.
She never came, by the way and the thing disappeared. I don't know what happened to it but I was glad it was gone, lol.