Comments & ID Thoughts
I found this climbing up my bathroom wall. This is in my new house(new construction) in Saltlake City
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- Submitted: Jan 11, 2020
- Photographed: Jan 8, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Saltlake City, Utah, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Sink or bathtub
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi It looks like a Spitting Spider (Scytodidae)
Exactly! This is Scytodes thoracica. They use their fangs to shoot a combination of gluey liquid silk and venom onto prey. Toxic goo trap! They aren’t dangerous to people. Let’s be glad they aren’t bigger than us!