Many people don’t know who is the largest spiders by name many of you probably watched scary looking large spiders in the movies killing humans well today you will know their name and learn all about them the largest spiders in the world are called desert tarantulas and surprisingly they are harmless to humans most of you haven’t seen them because they live in underground burrows they wait right at the entrance to prey they leave their homes to find females and their age is pretty long for animals the male spiders live 10 – 11 years and they die after mating and the females they live for 25 years and more also they lay eggs.