i just found a bunch of these small spiders by my bedroom window (inside), and all over one of my bathrooms (not in use). I think they've been there for a bit, not sure. found um around 4 in the afternoon. i sprayed all my windows with raid max bug barrier, killed um on the spot. Im trying to find out what they are but i haven't been able to tell. im down in leesville louisiana.PLEASE HELP^~^
Hi:
Believe it or not, the spider in your image is an adult "wall spider" in the family Oecobiidae. They don't get any bigger. They are completely harmless to people and pets, and can catch surprisingly large prey. They simply run circles around an insect, laying down silk to wrap it up! It is funny to watch them.
I would leave them alone to catch all the mosquitoes, flies, and other *real* pests that might make it indoors in your home.
Eric
Oh thank the lord jesus, lol. All i could think about was how many i'ed eaten in my sleep. I feel bad now.. I'ed killed two more with white butts, they looked different almost twice as big. if i find one again I'll post a thread. We get a lot of recluse and widows down here so I was scared. Thank you so much.Originally Posted by Eric
Which state do you live in?
Probably none!
Spider Myths: Gulp!
Myth: You unknowingly swallow an average of four live spiders in your sleep each year.
Fact: This very widespread urban legend has no basis in fact. It exists in various forms; another common version is that you swallow an average of 20 in your lifetime. (At 4 per year, that would make a very short lifetime of 5 years...) A correspondent in Pennsylvania had heard a version that involved swallowing a pound of spiders (while sleeping) in one's lifetime. (That would be over 20,000 average spiders, for a lifetime of 5,000 years at the 4 per year rate).
For a sleeping person to swallow even one live spider would involve so many highly unlikely circumstances that for practical purposes we can rule out the possibility. No such case is on formal record anywhere in scientific or medical literature.
Since this page first appeared, I have heard from one person who found a small harmless spider hiding in her ear (which is possible), two who claimed to have had one in their noses (but had no evidence that it wasn't already in the hanky), and a few who stated that years ago, when they were young children, they spat out or brushed from their mouths an object they interpreted (while still groggy with sleep) as a spider or spider leg. Those stories are so similar they may qualify as a distinct urban legend. Of course nobody ever preserved the evidence, and I remain unconvinced that a spider would visit a huge breathing monster and enter its mouth. The only credible account came from a woman who'd had a ballooning spider blow into her open mouth in a grassy field on a windy day – but that, too, happened when she was a child!
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You're welcome! Glad to be of service :-) Looking forward to helping again when the need arises.
Sorry, my text got pushed down by the picture. I'm down in louisiana right now. I meant it as a laugh. I don't see how any spider would crawl into a mouth either. In reality i had a lot of bug bites around my feet all of a sudden so i got worried. But, those pointed more towards chiggers. Those are some pretty insane numbers if that were true though. I wonder if that would count towards protein or fiber, lol.
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