House Spiders
 

I was about to go to sleep and I saw a spider crawl from my sheets onto my laptop screen in this pitch blackness that is my room.

Now I'm freaking paranoid it might be a brown recluse which is a terrible spider and dangerous to bite. I don't remember, it was about 1.5 inches total length, light color brown/grey and didn't seem very fast.

Any home-owners have advice, know where to look/exterminate or...am I overreacting? I know spiders kill a lot of other nasty insects but I don't want any bugs in my room!

Almost all spiders bite, but they don't really eat that many bugs. I say squash him if you see him. If you want to control bugs in your house, keep a gekko, or a toad in your home.

Just whack it with a slipper. Try not to do it where it will make a splattered mess. Get some toilet paper to wipe up the mess right away. It's not a brown recluse.

He sounds cute to me. My advice is to call him 'Bob' and make him your friend.

"House Spider"? Does he have a limp, use a cane, and diagnose really odd-ball medical conditions?

I love Rhianne.
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Its a tiny lil bug ... Kill it and smile as you drift off to dreamland.

I usually pick those up and take them outside. I've never had one bite me.

Brown Recluse (some images especially unpleasant).

Catch it and mail it to Rhianne. :haha:

House spiders are your friends. Ask yourself who else is patrolling your home for tasty bugs? spudcon's wrong. All they eat is bugs. Think how many bugs it takes to make 1.5 inches of spider? The spider couldn't care less about you--leave her alone.

In the interest of domestic felicity, I have, on occasion, escorted them outside. I have never been bitten.

According to this graph, there are no brown recluse in Chicago. So you're safe Fresh.

http://www.tricopest.com/pix/recluse_map.GIF

My bedroom visitor yesterday was one of those little gray jumping ones.

Generally spiders don't scare me, except the huge ones that live in my basement (Wolf spiders, I think) but spiders that jump? :::shudder:::

And yes, according to that map, we get Brown Recluses where I live. 'Tis true, I've seen em.

Did I ever show you guys the cutie I saw on vacation while walking at dusk?

Did you put it in your pocket?

Our house is full of spiders, we like them, they're beautiful creatures. Send him here if you like and we'll make him feel at home.