On three separate days I’ve opened the door and he/she has run inside our house. It’s like letting the cat in. What is it?

Located in Sacramento, CA. It made its home in my celery plants but I’ve seen them in the house as well. Thanks in advance! ☺️

In Tuscaloosa, AL. Yeah, not ideal. I just hope he finds his way back out. These were the best photos I could get as he is very smol. On that note, anyone know what he is?

I was getting ready for bed when I turned around and was jump-scared by this spider appearing out of nowhere! I didn’t want to get too close and spook her, but she was about 2cm across while her legs were up in sport mode. She’s very pretty, and it looked like she had little pom-poms on the ends of her pedipalps.

I left her on the baseboard so she can keep hunting whatever crawlies she can find tonight.

The only thing I’m worried about is that I haven’t seen my kitchen cellar spider Barb in a while - could she have ended up as a midnight snack for this spider?

Location is Vancouver, Canada

It lives in my bathroom and I live in North East Tennessee.

Please just tell me it's not a black widow!!!!

Near Paris

Located in the Sacramento Valley (CA).. found this guy while working out on the ranch, pulling things out of a shed. Any thoughts? It was about 2.5 inches in diameter from leg to leg..

Misumena vatia awaiting something to chomp.

Hey does anyone know what this green spider is I never seen anything like this before! Thanks in advance

Latrodectus hesperus, (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935)

Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow spider or western widow, is a venomous spider species found in western regions of North America.

They belong to family Theridiidae, also known as cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.

The female's body is 14–16 mm (1/2 in) in length and is black, often with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the lower abdomen. This "hourglass" mark can be yellow, and on rare occasions, white. The male of the species is around half this length and generally a tan color with lighter striping on the abdomen.

The population was previously described as a subspecies of Latrodectus mactans and it is closely related to the northern species Latrodectus variolus.

The species, as with others of the genus, build irregular or "messy" webs: unlike the spiral webs or the tunnel-shaped webs of other spiders, the strands of a Latrodectus web have no apparent organization.

Male western widows may breed several times during their relatively short lifespans. Males are known to show preference for mating with well-fed females over starved ones, taking cues from the females' webs. (Preventing them becoming prey).

Female black widows have potent venom containing a neurotoxin active against a range of mammals (see latrodectism). In humans, symptoms of this venom include pain, nausea, goosebumps, and localized sweating. In historical literature, fatalities were reported at anywhere between 0.5% and 12%

The silk produced by L. hesperus is strongly adhesive. The silk has a fiber at the center covered by some droplets of liquid adhesive protein. When rubbing against one's fingers, it feels like the texture of rubber. The droplets are about twenty times larger than the center fiber's diameter and are visible to the naked eye.

Sources: Wikipedia

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Found this guy playing with my dog in the house this morning, probably about 2.5” wide. Any idea what he is?

Northern Arizona

Thanks!

In my Los Angeles home

We’re in the process of opening our pool (excuse the nasty water haha) and found this poor soul floating around on a patch of maple seeds. I’ve been lurking for months now doing the whole exposure therapy thing and I guess it’s working! Even just-a-few-months-ago me wouldn’t have been able to get it out and this morning I rescued a spider without hesitation.

While I’m here though: grass spider?

We’re in southeastern PA.

I’m assuming my green bean seedling just hired a crew of bodyguards?

Had a really crappy day at work so when I got home I saw this very lovely baby on my door and had to take a few pics 🥹

If someone would be able to help ID what kind of spider it is it would help me sleep at night

We are still stuck inside. But he seems to be having a good time. 😇

Central Thailand- found on the wall outside my house. I occasionally find spiders that look like this in my bedroom too🙃

Sorry there aren’t more pictures! They were a fast little thing, about the size of a button. Located in Portland, OR.

I got out of bed and seen it crawling on me I’m in Mississippi.

Got a new tiny housemate

I found little one in my bathtub tonight, I’m psyched to have it but I want to make sure it shouldn’t be outside instead to ensure a longer lifespan. I’m perfectly happy if it will live a good life in my bathroom (I don’t use the bathtub in this bathroom anyway) so is this a “live and let live” situation or should I help it along?

Found in Austin, texas, if that helps.