Large spiders?

Question

Do the spiders you see out the corner of your eye - while you're watching TV - spin webs? I have had a huge one in the living room for 4 days now and I cannot find any trace of a web, it seems to spend most of it's time near the ceiling

Answer 1

There is a spider known as the cellar spider, which is sometimes referred to as a daddy-long-legs, but most daddy-long-legs (they're actually called harvestmen) are not spiders. They make up the order Opiliones. Let's look at some of the things that put harvestmen in a league of their own.

Physical Features

Unlike spiders, which have clearly defined body segments, the harvestman's body looks more like a flat oval disk. Also, harvestmen only have two eyes, which stick out of the middle of the "head." There are eight long, slender legs; the second pair are the longest. Harvestmen keep their bodies close to the ground despite the length of their legs. The various species of harvestmen can only be distinguished by minute differences.

Diet

Harvestmen eat small insects, spiders, mites, fungi, decaying plants and invertebrates, earthworms, snails, bird droppings, and other harvestmen.

Habitat

They generally prefer open fields and tree trunks. Sometimes harvestmen can be seen huddled in huge masses on the walls of buildings. Harvestmen can be found in any part of the U.S.

Reproduction and Life Cycle

Unlike any other arachnid, a male harvestman has a p***s, which it uses for brief sexual intercourse with a female harvestman. The female then uses an ovipositor (an egg-laying device) to insert eggs into the ground. Over the winter most of the old generation of harvestmendies. The new generation is born in the spring. Most harvestmen live only one year.

Oh yea, I almost forgot to mention that they do not spin webbs.  I guess this is the type of insect you have in your living room.  Long, very thin legs with a body that seems to "float".  They're completely harmless.  That poor little thing would be better off cought and put outside.

Answer 2

Yes, but its web is in a dark, hidden place - possibly in the foot of your bed orunder the pillow - joking apart theyre mere likely to live in the brickwork or make a sudden appearance at night.

Answer 3

If you're in Australia, it's almost certainly a Huntsman Spider. They don't spin webs.

Huntsman Spiders are in other places around the world too, so even if you aren't in Aust., that may be what it is. It's just that I know, here in Australia, nearly every large spider you'll find in a house will be a Huntsman. I've lived in a lot of places in Aust., and they are always there.

Here's a pic. of what some of them look like. Some are thinner etc., but they all look roughly like the one in the pic.

http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spider...

Answer 4

your house is too tidy, so why bother spinning a web to catch nothing.

Answer 5

Check it here -

http://www.spideridentification.org/

http://www.badspiderbites.com/spider-ide...

http://www.aboutbugsbugsbugs.com/spiders...

http://www.pesticide.org/spiders.html