A video of a huntsman spider devouring a mouse has gone viral.

Mouse-eating spider

Mouse-eating spider

The stomach-turning clip, which sees the eight-legged creature scale a refrigerator in Queensland, Australia, with his four-legegd victim has shocked viewers who have watched the footage over 2.6 million times, which was caught on camera by Jason Womal and shared to Facebook.

Jason caught the toe-curling act whilst at his neighbour's home.

Speaking about the event, he said: ''So I am just about to leave for work about 0030 and me neighbour says, 'You want to see something cool'.

''I say, 'hell yeah'.

''So we proceed to his place and he shows me this.

''[A] huntsman trying to eat a mouse.''