Comments & ID Thoughts
Please help identify.
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- Submitted: Oct 27, 2020
- Photographed: Oct 26, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Please help identify.
This is Zoropsis spinimana. Not a concern.
Thank you! My wife found it in the clothes hamper and picked it up thining it was a leaf. My concern is that there are little ones somewhere in the house.
Don’t worry, there will be no infestation. This looks like a female, so let’s just suppose she has laid eggs somewhere in your house. What will happen when the spiderlings hatch? Mother Nature will do away with most of them in a way or the other. The (very) few survivors will try to get out of your house, because these spiders are wandering predators. This implies that they have an innate territorial instinct, unlike flies, mosquitoes or any other house pest that you can think of 🙂
I appreciate the information. I’ll pass it along to my wife who is imagining thousands of spiders in the closet. She slept with one eye open last night. 🙂