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    Spider in house

    Okay I live up north and was wondering if anyone can identify what kind of spider I found under my bed. It is quite small but I was curious.


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    Wolf spider I'm pretty sure.

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    burn it with fire! the house can be replaced.

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    Re: Spider in house

    Quote Originally Posted by Apiratenamedjohn View Post
    burn it with fire! the house can be replaced.
    Haha I definitely smashed it and sucked it up with the vacuum


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    They're actually beneficial, & get rid of worse bugs* around your house. I do kill some spiders in house if they're going to get away, but when I can, I get
    an empty jar & piece of thin cardboard, put the jar over the spider & slide it onto the cardboard (for a lid), then toss the spider outside into my garden.
    (*such as crickets, earwigs, grasshoppers, ants & flies. Of those, only grasshoppers don't try to live in my house, so a few spiders really help.)

    Around here, there's TONS of spiders, many kinds. My late mom was phobic about them & would suck them up with the vacuum hose, & then was afraid
    to empty the vacuum....hahaha!

    Well, the main thing is that you survived, eh?
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    Re: Spider in house

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
    They're actually beneficial, & get rid of worse bugs around your house. I do kill some spiders in house if they're going to get away, but when I can, I get
    an empty jar & piece of thin cardboard, put the jar over the spider & slide it onto the cardboard (for a lid), then toss the spider outside into my garden.

    Around here, there's TONS of spiders, many kinds. My late mom was phobic about them & would suck them up with the vacuum hose, & then was afraid
    to empty the vacuum....hahaha!

    Well, the main thing is that you survived, eh?
    Lol I was bit by one a month or so ago and went through a couple of weeks with a swollen red foot soo I think it deserved what it got. I don’t hate spiders just saying I also am not friends with them loll


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    Re: Spider in house

    Quote Originally Posted by aes1004 View Post
    Lol I was bit by one a month or so ago and went through a couple of weeks with a swollen red foot soo I think it deserved what it got. I don’t hate spiders just saying I also am not friends with them loll


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    I can see where you're coming from...I've been pretty lucky in that regard, & I'm sorry that you weren't so lucky. Like snakes, spiders are not after us, but
    we get in their way sometimes & we're pretty big easy targets, though most spiders are too small to do much damage.
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    Looks like it was a hobo spider.

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    Patterning on the abdomen looks more like Hobo but I can't say for sure. Hobo's and Wolf's look so similar I have a hard time differentiating the two. They're both really common here in Utah. If you're not in the northwest it would have to be a Wolf though. I believe Montana is about as far east they go.

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