Comments & ID Thoughts
Needing to know what kind of spider this is please.
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- Submitted: May 19, 2022
- Photographed: May 19, 2022
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Elizabethton , Tennessee, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
It’s a Cellar Spider in family Pholcidae. Totally not dangerous to people. I don’t know if they are even able to bite us. I have a lot of them in my house and I’m completely comfortable hanging out with them. They are awesome at catching fruit flies and might live in potted plants to eat any insects that infest the potting soil. They drink water from wet soil and wet sinks too. I’ve had many that learned to drop down to me to get a spritz of water during hot dry weather. They eat insects and other spiders too. An… Read more »
It does put my mind at ease. Thank you so much!