Hi, I find these around my house all year round, this time of year and right before winter is when they move around the most. I mostly see them in my living room and kitchen walking on the walls or in their tiny caccoon of webbing up where the ceilings meet the walls when it’s winter. I seem to find one every day lately and it seems more than normal. It’s to the point where I don’t even want to sit in the living room. Any idea what it is and if there are ways to deter them from being… Read more »
Hi. Looks like long legged sac spider,Cheiracanthium species. I have those year round. Usually autumn the spring broods are grown to adult and males wander for mates, so more often spotted. They are there though, the younger very pale and blend in well on walls and ceilings. More nocturnal, they make small web sleeping bags to spend the day in (hence their name) hard to spot, often in cracks an corners, where walls meet ceilings,around door and window moldings, well camouflaged. Not dangerous spiders, worth having a couple about. https://bugguide.net/node/view/3383 My full time house guest I can sometimes find two… Read more »
They’ve been emerging all over U.S. in the last month. I just let them live with my other kinds of house spiders. They tend to kill each other, but they don’t cause any trouble for us or our pets.
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Hi, I find these around my house all year round, this time of year and right before winter is when they move around the most. I mostly see them in my living room and kitchen walking on the walls or in their tiny caccoon of webbing up where the ceilings meet the walls when it’s winter. I seem to find one every day lately and it seems more than normal. It’s to the point where I don’t even want to sit in the living room. Any idea what it is and if there are ways to deter them from being… Read more »
Hi. Looks like long legged sac spider,Cheiracanthium species. I have those year round. Usually autumn the spring broods are grown to adult and males wander for mates, so more often spotted. They are there though, the younger very pale and blend in well on walls and ceilings. More nocturnal, they make small web sleeping bags to spend the day in (hence their name) hard to spot, often in cracks an corners, where walls meet ceilings,around door and window moldings, well camouflaged. Not dangerous spiders, worth having a couple about. https://bugguide.net/node/view/3383 My full time house guest I can sometimes find two… Read more »
They’ve been emerging all over U.S. in the last month. I just let them live with my other kinds of house spiders. They tend to kill each other, but they don’t cause any trouble for us or our pets.