I don’t think it was dangerous. The most dangerous spiders that live in the USA are Black Widows, Brown Widows, and Brown Recluses. No other American spiders are risky to people with average immune systems. I don’t know the species from your description. Are you sure it wasn’t an insect? Someone else might still read the description and recognize it. You might get a photo if you see another one. There is time to take a photo. No spider in our country has venom that will kill you in modern times. We have antivenoms for Widow bites. At least if… Read more »
Only wild guesses from this description. Maybe Trachelas tranquillus (Broad-faced Sac Spider) or Dysdera crocata (Woolouse Hunter). Both have dark reddish brown heads that could look black (particularly the Trachelas) depending on the lighting with possibly pale abdomens and red legs and wouldn’t be unusual to find indoors (again, particularly the Trachelas).
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I meant to say with a pale body almost White and I found it on my bed
And it had a really fat body
I don’t think it was dangerous. The most dangerous spiders that live in the USA are Black Widows, Brown Widows, and Brown Recluses. No other American spiders are risky to people with average immune systems. I don’t know the species from your description. Are you sure it wasn’t an insect? Someone else might still read the description and recognize it. You might get a photo if you see another one. There is time to take a photo. No spider in our country has venom that will kill you in modern times. We have antivenoms for Widow bites. At least if… Read more »
It’s a woodlouse spider (Dysdera crocata). Thanks
That’s fantastic that you two figured it out!
Only wild guesses from this description. Maybe Trachelas tranquillus (Broad-faced Sac Spider) or Dysdera crocata (Woolouse Hunter). Both have dark reddish brown heads that could look black (particularly the Trachelas) depending on the lighting with possibly pale abdomens and red legs and wouldn’t be unusual to find indoors (again, particularly the Trachelas).
It’s a woodlouse spider (Dysdera crocata). Thanks
The body is too dark to be a Trachelas tranquillus and the spider I saw it didn’t have any markings or patterns in the legs