What is this can anyone help please ?

Of course, the problem with charts like that is most people who don't care for spiders are not going to take the time to look one up if it's in their house. The other problem is, there are a lot of harmless spiders that look an awful lot like a dangerous spider, especially from 15 feet away.

That being said, I don't mind spiders in the house. Usually I see them and calmly fetch a glass or plastic dish and an index card, persuade them gently to enter the glass, and relocate them back outside. Of course, large spiders of any kind terrify a lot of people.

If you want to know just what a mind trip finding a big spider in the house can be, I'll share my true experience with you. Two years ago in the middle of fall, my husband was cleaning out from under our deck and found a very large female Kentucky Fishing spider. Our second. Don't ask me what a fishing spider from Kentucky was doing under my deck in mid Missouri, I don't know. Anyhow, being the kindhearted soul that I am, I took her in, just like I did the first. We placed her in a large critter keeper with some coconut bedding and a dish of water crystals, and fed her crickets through the winter. Although large and rather intimidating looking, our girls were very docile and fascinating pets. In the spring, as the weather began to settle, we set a date to release the girl at a large conservation area with lots of lakes and ponds, suitable habitat for a fishing spider, wouldn't you say?

A week or so before our chosen release date, I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I closed the door and turned on the light, to discover a very large fishing spider in the bathroom sink. I didn't panic or scream, but calmly opened the bedroom door, while trying to figure out how the female escaped her keeper, made it all the way across the bedroom and into the bathroom. I peeked out into the bedroom at the keeper on the dresser. The female was clearly resting in her favorite corner. I looked back in the bathroom. The spider was still in the sink. I looked back in the bedroom. The spider was still in the keeper. It took my sleepy mind several times looking from one to the other to process this was a second spider. So, not knowing what else to do I woke my husband, who grumpily helped me to catch the second spider. With a little effort and fast moving on our part, we succeeded. In the morning, I got a good look at our new visitor, and discovered it was a male. My only theory was, he had somehow smelled/sensed the female and had managed to get into the house past the cats searching for her. I was however glad I found him before he made it into the bedroom and onto the bed in his search.

We kept the two side by side for a week, feeding them up on crickets, before we turned them loose. Hopefully, they found a suitable home quickly and produced a new generation of spiders.

To the OP, I understand being afraid. I have always been terrified of jumping spiders. Hairy little beasts that can jump a mile <shudder> I couldn't tolerate them inside or out. However, in the last few years I have discovered, mostly through spider people I met via reptile people, that they can actually be quite cute and charming. And wonder of wonders, people actually keep them as pets! So, little by little I've been conquering my fear. It's not easy, especially when one of the really large ones finds it's way into the house, but I have learned I can treat them as I do my other guests, if I am quick. It helps to understand they are not monsters, any more than my beloved snakes that frighten people so badly are. They don't go around stalking people to bite them any more than my snakes do. We've kind of reached a truce I suppose you could say. I don't go out of my way to hurt them, and I don't judge them based on fear. I see too much of that with my snakes, and I feel a bit like a hypocrite to act that way towards a spider.

Gale

spiders are alright

I love my house spiders. Got a bit of variety but I mostly see the huntsman types bolting across a wall or the wolf variety scampering about on the floor. Haven't seen a roach in quite a while and any insects that wander into the house I can ignore knowing they will be hunted down with extreme prejudice. My advise would be to relocate any that you are unsure of and let the ones you know to be harmless do what they do best - destroy bugs.

One of my wall bolters slowed down by her egg sac. I was pretty pumped to get another generation of these suckers in house. I pity the crawler that catches their eye. The smoke detector is 5 inches across for size reference.
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One of my jumpers on perimeter patrol taking down a katydid that wandered too close to the side door.
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