We’ve had a mini invasion of creepy crawlers recently, but mostly a crazy looking spider that nobody seems to know how to identify. It crawled right next to our friend’s foot when we were eating dinner on the patio a couple nights ago, and then I saw another one on our screen door, and then another crawling along the wall in the living room. It’s about the size of a quarter, light tan all over with an almost translucent look, and a bug bubble butt. Most of you know that spiders totally creep me out (my worst stress dreams always involve them). But I spent an hour on the internet, shuddering while looking at photo after photo of spiders, trying to find this particular species.
From what I could tell, it looked like a cross between a Brown Recluse and a Hobo Spider, but I still don’t know what it is or if it’s dangerous, and that freaks me out! If it’s a recluse, I know that spraying poison around the house won’t help because they’re attracted to the dead insects, and can apparently live long periods of time without food, water, or even air. So all I could think to do was get out the power hose and spray every spider web and dead insect away from our windows, doors and foundation. Hopefully that will keep whatever it is from coming in to the house. Scary!
Haden says it looks like an orb.
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